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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from a Semitic language, such as Hebrew פּוּךְ (pūk, “eye-rouge, antimony”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰŷː.kos/ → /ˈɸy.kos/ → /ˈfi.kos/
Noun
φῦκος • (phûkos) n (genitive φῡ́κους); third declension
- seaweed
- orchil made of φῦκος (phûkos) and used as rouge by Greek women
Declension
References
- “φῦκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φῦκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φῦκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φῦκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φῦκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ^ 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, page 1595