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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Like most expressions for "chalk", the word must be a loan. A different hypothesis is offered by Reichelt, who connects Sanskrit श्वित्न (śvitna, “whitish”) and κίττανος (kíttanos, “dusty chalk”), as well as the toponyms Τιτάνη (Titánē) and Πιτάνη (Pitánē). However, given the variation ε/ι, the word is probably Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tí.ta.nos/ → /ˈti.ta.nos/ → /ˈti.ta.nos/
Noun
τῐ́τᾰνος • (títanos) f (genitive τῐτᾰ́νου); second declension
- kind of white earth, probably gypsum
- chalk, lime
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Further reading
- “τίτανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τίτανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τίτανος 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