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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to λαγαρός (lagarós) and χαλαρός (khalarós). It is a substantivization from an adjective *ταλαρός (*talarós), built from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear”), with regular shift of accent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tá.la.ros/ → /ˈta.la.ros/ → /ˈta.la.ros/
Noun
τᾰ́λᾰρος • (tálaros) m (genitive τᾰλᾰ́ρου); second declension
- basket of wickerwork
- wicker cage for fowls
Inflection
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Further reading
- “τάλαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τάλαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τάλαρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τάλαρος 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