πόσθη

Has been connected with Ancient Greek πέος (péos, “penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *pes-o- (“penis”), but the derivation is problematic. Beekes thinks it is likely a loan from a non-Indo-European-Language, like Pre-Greek.

πόσθη • (pósthē) f (genitive πόσθης); first declension

1. (anatomy) The penis
   1. foreskin

• ἀκροβυστία (akrobustía)
• ποσθαλίσκος (posthalískos)
• πόσθιον (pósthion)
• πόσθων (pósthōn)

• Greek: πόσθη (pósthi)

• πόσθη 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), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1224
• Boisacq, Émile (1916) “πόσθη”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 806
• Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “πόσθη”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, page 931
• Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “πόσθη”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 584
• Hofmann, J. B. (1949) “πόσθη”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen‎ (in German), Munich: R. Oldenbourg, page 281
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “πόσθη”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 912
• “πόσθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πόσθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Ancient Greek πόσθη (pósthē).

• IPA^(key):

πόσθη • (pósthi) f (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) foreskin, prepuce

• ακροβυστία f (akrovystía)
• ακροποσθία f (akroposthía)

• ποσθίτιδα f (posthítida, “infection of the foreskin”)