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Ancient Greek
Etymology
For this word, DELG assumes *φληϝ-ο- (*phlēw-o-), beside *φλωϝ-ο- (*phlōw-o-) for φλόος (phlóos, “rind, skin, slough”). Often derived from the verb φλέω (phléō, “to overflow, flood”), but Chantraine adds the word may just as well be a loan; this would agree with Beekes's suggestion of a Pre-Greek origin of the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰlé.ɔːs/ → /ˈɸle.os/ → /ˈfle.os/
Noun
φλέως • (phléōs) m (genitive φλέω); second declension
- Ravenna grass (Saccharum ravennae)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “φλέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φλέως in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φλέως”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1578