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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A technical word without etymology, so possibly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰliː.ǎː/ → /ɸliˈa/ → /fliˈa/
Noun
φλῑᾱ́ • (phlīā́) f (genitive φλῑᾶς); first declension
- doorpost, doorjamb
- lintel
- standing post in which a windlass works
- support
Inflection
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Further reading
- “φλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φλιά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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