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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From στρέφω (stréphō) + -ος (-os)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stró.pʰos/ → /ˈstro.ɸos/ → /ˈstro.fos/
Noun
στρόφος • (stróphos) m (genitive στρόφου); second declension
- a twisted band or cord
- a swathing cloth, swaddling band
- a twisting of the bowels, colic
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Further reading
- “στρόφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- στρόφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στρόφος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “στρόφος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “στρόφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press