τύρσις

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely a Mediterranean substrate loan, perhaps from Illyrian.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

τύρσις • (túrsis) f (indeclinable)

  1. tower

Descendants

  • Latin: turris (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Τύρσις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1520-1
  2. ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “τύρσις”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 948-49

Further reading

  • “τύρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “τύρσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “τύρσις”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
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