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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unclear. Frisk suggests it could stand for *ψήχια (*psḗkhia), from ψήχω (psḗkhō, “to rub down”) (because of its hard, raw skin), comparing θρίσσα (thríssa, “kind of fish”) and θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Of course, this is only a suggestion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psɛ̂ːt.ta/ → /ˈpsit.ta/ → /ˈpsi.ta/
Noun
ψῆττᾰ • (psêtta) f (genitive ψήττης); first declension
- kind of flatfish, perhaps the turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
- Synonym: ῥόμβος (rhómbos)
- (figuratively) glutton, gourmandizer
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Further reading
- “ψῆττα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ψῆττα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψῆττα 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