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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to δρύοψ (drúops) and πάρνοψ (párnops). The suffix "-οψ" is typical of Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛː.né.lops/ → /piˈne.lops/ → /piˈne.lops/
Noun
πηνέλοψ • (pēnélops) m (genitive πηνέλοπος); third declension
- kind of particoloured duck
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Further reading
- “πηνέλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πηνέλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πηνέλοψ 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