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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σκῦτος (skûtos, “hide, skin”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, separate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skyː.to.tó.mos/ → /scy.toˈto.mos/ → /sci.toˈto.mos/
Noun
σκῡτοτόμος • (skūtotómos) m (genitive σκῡτοτόμου); second declension
- leather-cutter, worker in leather
- shoemaker, cobbler
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References
- “σκυτοτόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σκυτοτόμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σκυτοτόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σκυτοτόμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963