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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. According to Beekes, the similarity of the suffix with κημός (kēmós, “muzzle”) is notable, while the relation with φιτρός (phitrós, “block of wood”) seems improbable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰiː.mós/ → /ɸiˈmos/ → /fiˈmos/
Noun
φῑμός • (phīmós) m (genitive φῑμοῦ); second declension
- muzzle for dogs, calves
- Synonyms: κημός (kēmós), πνιγεύς (pnigeús)
- gag
- noseband
- cup used as a dicebox
- tightening, constriction by means of ropes
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Further reading
- “φιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φιμός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1574