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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *putʰmḗn, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
Cognate with πύνδαξ (púndax), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhná), Latin fundus, Old Armenian անդունդ (andund), Old English botm (English bottom).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pytʰ.mɛ̌ːn/ → /pyθˈmin/ → /piθˈmin/
By position:
- IPA(key): /pyːtʰ.mɛ̌ːn/ → /pyθˈmin/ → /piθˈmin/
Noun
πῠθμήν or πῡθμήν • (puthmḗn or pūthmḗn) m (genitive πῠθμένος); third declension
- bottom of a cup or jar
- the bottom of the sea
- trunk, butt of a tree
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “πυθμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυθμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πυθμήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πυθμήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πυθμήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πυθμήν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.