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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes of Pre-Greek origin. Has been connected with Ancient Greek σφάζω (spházō, “to slay, to kill”) but this connection seems unconvincing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰáz.ɡa.non/ → /ˈɸaz.ɣa.non/ → /ˈfaz.ɣa.non/
Noun
φᾰ́σγᾰνον • (phásganon) n (genitive φᾰσγᾰ́νου); second declension
- sword
- corn-flag (Gladiolus italicus)
- Synonyms: ξῐφῐ́ον (xiphíon), ξῐ́φος (xíphos)
- cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium)
- Synonym: ξᾰ́νθῐον (xánthion)
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Further reading
- “φάσγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φάσγανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φάσγανον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φάσγανον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φάσγανον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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