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Ancient Greek
Etymology
This word is found beside ψακάς (psakás, “drop”); this points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psi.ás/ → /psiˈas/ → /psiˈas/
Noun
ψῐᾰ́ς • (psiás) f (genitive ψῐᾰ́δος); third declension
- drop
- Synonyms: πέμφιξ (pémphix), ῥαθάμιγξ (rhatháminx), ῥανίς (rhanís), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás)
Inflection
References
- “ψιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψιάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ψιάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ψιάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ψιάς 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