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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From περιτέμνω (peritémnō, “to circumcise”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.ri.to.mɛ̌ː/ → /pe.ri.toˈmi/ → /pe.ri.toˈmi/
Noun
περῐτομή • (peritomḗ) f (genitive περῐτομῆς); first declension
- circular incision
- circumcision
- one who is circumcised
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “περιτομή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “περιτομή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- περιτομή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4061 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- περιτομή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek περιτομή (peritomḗ).
Noun
περιτομή • (peritomí) f (plural περιτομές)
- (medicine, religion) circumcision
Declension