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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée compares ἄσβολος (ásbolos, “soot”), ψόθος (psóthos, “foulness, uncleanness”), ψοῖθος (psoîthos, “ashes”) and σποδός (spodós, “ashes”), suggesting a common Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psó.los/ → /ˈpso.los/ → /ˈpso.los/
Noun
ψόλος • (psólos) m (genitive ψόλου); second declension
- soot, smoke
- Synonyms: αἴθαλος (aíthalos), ἄσβολος (ásbolos)
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Further reading
- “ψόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψόλος 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