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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Traditionally derived from πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, open”). According to Beekes, the word could be of Pre-Greek origin, given the variation αυ-/ευ- and the prenasalization.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé.teu̯.ron/ → /ˈpe.te.βron/ → /ˈpe.te.vron/
Noun
πέτευρον • (péteuron) n (genitive πετεύρου); second declension
- roosting perch for fowls
- (in general) pole, spar, plank
- springboard used by tumblers and acrobats
- platform, stage
- springe, trap
- public notice board
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Further reading
- “πέτευρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέτευρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέτευρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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