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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word could be related to Old Armenian որթ (ortʻ, “vine”). Furnée attributes this match rather to independent borrowing, from a common substrate origin, perhaps Pre-Greek. On the other hand, Petersson derives these words from Proto-Indo-European *portʰo-, beside *pertʰ- (“pole, sprout”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ptór.tʰos/ → /ˈptor.θos/ → /ˈptor.θos/
Noun
πτόρθος • (ptórthos) m (genitive πτόρθου); second declension
- (botany) young branch, sapling, shoot
- Synonyms: ἔρνος (érnos), θαλλός (thallós), ὄρπηξ (órpēx), τέρχνος (térkhnos)
- sprouting, budding
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Further reading
- “πτόρθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πτόρθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πτόρθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πτόρθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πτόρθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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