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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Explained by Beekes as an instrument noun from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to strike, hew”) and cognate with Proto-Celtic *binati (“to hit”) and Latin perfines.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰi.trós/ → /ɸiˈtros/ → /fiˈtros/
Noun
φιτρός • (phitrós) m (genitive φιτροῦ); second declension
- block of wood, log
- bole or trunk of a tree
- firebrand
Inflection
Further reading
- “φιτρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φιτρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φιτρός”, 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