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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the same substrate/Pre-Greek root of σῐκῠ́α (sikúa, “bottle-gourd”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sí.ky.os/ → /ˈsi.cy.os/ → /ˈsi.ci.os/
Noun
σῐ́κῠος • (síkuos) m (genitive σῐκῠ́ου); second declension
- cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σίκυος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σίκυος 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), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN