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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology remains highly uncertain, but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /struː.tʰós/ → /struˈθos/ → /struˈθos/
Noun
στρουθός • (strouthós) m or f (genitive στρουθοῦ); second declension
- house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Synonym: σποργῐ́λος (sporgílos)
- flatfish, European flounder (Platichthys flesus, syn. Pleuronectes flesus).
- ostrich
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Further reading
- “στρουθός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στρουθός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στρουθός 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