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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, it is clearly a Pre-Greek word, in view of the several variants.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰɛː.ra.mós/ → /çi.raˈmos/ → /çi.raˈmos/
Noun
χηρᾰμός • (khēramós) f (genitive χηρᾰμοῦ); second declension
- hole, cleft, slit, hollow
Inflection
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Further reading
- “χηραμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χηραμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χηραμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χηραμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χηραμός 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