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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πρός (prós, “with”) and κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pros.ke.pʰá.lai̯.on/ → /pros.ceˈɸa.lɛ.on/ → /pros.ceˈfa.le.on/
Noun
προσκεφάλαιον • (proskephálaion) n (genitive προσκεφαλαίου); second declension
- pillow
- cushion
Inflection
References
- “προσκεφάλαιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “προσκεφάλαιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- προσκεφάλαιον 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
- G4344 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- προσκεφάλαιον 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.