ἀμυδρός

Unknown. Ancient Greek ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark”) is close in meaning and form, but the two cannot be combined in Indo-European terms. Influence of φαιδρός (phaidrós, “bright, beaming”) has been proposed, but such contaminations are often rather gratuitous. In principle, ἀμυδ- may continue an Indo-European root *h₂mud-. The Slavic root Proto-Slavic *mъd- (“weakness”) cannot continue *h₂mud- in view of Winter's Law (so it is from *mudʰ-).

ἀμῠδρός • (amudrós) m (feminine ἀμῠδρᾱ́, neuter ἀμῠδρόν); first/second declension

1. dim, faint, obscure
2. (in general) faint, weak
3. vague, indistinct, obscure

• Greek: αμυδρός (amydrós)

• “ἀμυδρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀμυδρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀμυδρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀμυδρός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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