φλοιός

Formally, it belongs to φλέω (phléō, “to abound”) together with φλόος (phlóos, “skin, slough”). Semantically, the connection with φλέω (phléō) is clear in ὑπέρφλοιος (hupérphloios, “luxuriant, succulent”). Frisk thinks that the rind may have received its name from its being rich in flesh and juice, as opposed to the wood underneath. However, it could also be from the same Pre-Greek of φλέως (phléōs, “Ravenna grass”), which is suggested for φλέω (phléō) too.

φλοιός • (phloiós) m (genitive φλοιοῦ); second declension

1. (botany) bark of trees, especially smooth bark
2. husk or skin of certain fruits
3. membrane enclosing the eggs of certain animals
4. tissue from which spiders spin their webs
5. (figuratively) of superficial or useless coverings, redundancy

• “φλοιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φλοιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φλοιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φλοιός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bark idem, page 63.
  • rind idem, page 716.
• 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

Inherited from Ancient Greek φλοιός (phloiós).

• IPA^(key): /fliˈos/
• Hyphenation: φλοι‧ός

φλοιός • (floiós) m (plural φλοιοί)

1. bark (of tree)
2. peel (of fruit)
3. husk (of grain)
4. (geography) crust of the Earth
5. (anatomy) cortex

• φλούδα f (floúda, “bark, peel”)
• δεντρόφλουδα f (dentróflouda, “tree bark”)

• φλοιώδης (floiódis, “barky”)
• νεοφλοιός (neofloiós, “neocortex”)

• πίτουρο n (pítouro, “bran”)