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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “sycamore”), with assimilation to σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syː.ká.miː.nos/ → /syˈka.mi.nos/ → /siˈka.mi.nos/
Noun
σῡκᾰ́μῑνος • (sūkámīnos) f or m (genitive σῡκᾰμῑ́νου); second declension
- black mulberry (Morus nigra)
- white mulberry (Morus alba)
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Further reading
- “συκάμινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “συκάμινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- συκάμινος 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