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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Not related to Latin ador (“hulled wheat”) nor to ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”). According to Beekes, the nasalized form ἀνθέριξ (anthérix) points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.tʰɛ̌ːr/ → /aˈθir/ → /aˈθir/
Noun
ἀθήρ • (athḗr) m (genitive ἀθέρος); third declension
- (botany) awn
- (in the plural) chaff
- barb of a weapon
- spine or prickle of a fish
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Further reading
- “ἀθήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀθήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀθήρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀθήρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29