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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πέσσω (péssō, “to cook”) + -τρῐᾰ (-tria). Reflects Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tr-ih₂ ~ *pkʷ-tr-yéh₂s (“female cook”), from *pekʷ- (“to cook”), compare Latin coctor m, Sanskrit पक्तृ m (paktṛ́).
Noun
πέπτρῐᾰ • (péptria) f (genitive πεπτρῐ́ᾱς); first declension (hapax)
- (female?) baker
- Synonyms: ἀρτοκόπος (artokópos), σιτοποιός (sitopoiós)
References
- “πέπτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1180f.
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 798