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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx, “fox”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.lɔː.pe.kí.aː/ → /a.lo.peˈci.a/ → /a.lo.peˈci.a/
Noun
ἀλωπεκίᾱ • (alōpekíā) f (genitive ἀλωπεκίᾱs); first declension
- (veterinary medicine) mange in foxes
- (in the plural) bald patches on the head
- (Byzantine) hair loss
- fox's den
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀλωπεκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀλωπεκία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀλωπεκία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ἀλωπεκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀλωπεκία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften