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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pisani insuccesfully attempted to link the word to κριθή (krithḗ, “barley”). According to Beekes, it is a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰîː.dron/ → /ˈçi.ðron/ → /ˈçi.ðron/
Noun
χῖδρον • (khîdron) n (genitive χῑ́δρου); second declension
- (mostly in the plural) unripe wheaten groats, rubbed from the ear in the hands
Inflection
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Further reading
- “χῖδρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χῖδρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χῖδρον 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