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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Without certain etymology. The traditional connection with τάργανον (tárganon, “spoiled wine, wine-vinegar”) is neither phonetically nor semantically convincing. The formal identity with τρυγάω (trugáō, “to gather fruits”) is remarkable, especially since both words refer to viniculture and wine production. Porzig pleads for Pre-Greek origin of all these words.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trýks/ → /tryks/ → /triks/
Noun
τρῠ́ξ • (trúx) f (genitive τρῠγός); third declension
- wine not yet fermented, must
- lees of wine, dregs, sediments
- dross, waste of metal
- faecal matter in the stomach
- (figuratively) old man or woman
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Further reading
- “τρύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τρύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τρύξ 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