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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πτόλις (ptólis), variant of πόλις (pólis, “city”) + -θρον (-thron). Olsen calls the phonetic details "quite obscure."[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pto.lí.e.tʰron/ → /ptoˈli.e.θron/ → /ptoˈli.e.θron/
Noun
πτολίεθρον • (ptolíethron) n
- (Epic) city
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Odyssey 1.1–2:
- Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·- Ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà
plánkhthē, epeì Troíēs hieròn ptolíethron éperse; - Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:
Synonyms
References
- “πτολίεθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πτολίεθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πτολίεθρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πτολίεθρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πτολίεθρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ^ The Proto-Indo-European Instrument Noun Suffix *-tlom and its Variants, by Birgit Anette Olsen (1988), 7.3.7