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Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. The connection with πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) and πέτομαι (pétomai, “to dart, rush”) does not convince.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pí.ty.los/ → /ˈpi.ty.los/ → /ˈpi.ti.los/
Noun
πῐ́τῠλος • (pítulos) m (genitive πῐτῠ́λου); second declension
- sweep, stroke of oars
- shower, torrent
- onslaught, attack, fit
Inflection
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Further reading
- “πίτυλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πίτυλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πίτυλος 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