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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓μφῐ́ς (amphís, “on both sides”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I go”) + -ᾰ (-a).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am.pʰíz.bai̯.na/ → /amˈɸiz.βɛ.na/ → /amˈfiz.ve.na/
Noun
ᾰ̓μφῐ́σβαινᾰ • (amphísbaina) f (genitive ᾰ̓μφῐσβαίνης); first declension
- a kind of serpent which can go backwards or forwards
- veins which run between the breast and generative organs
Inflection
Descendants
- → Latin: amphisbaena (see there for further descendants)
References
- “ἀμφίσβαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀμφίσβαινα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀμφίσβαινα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀμφίσβαινα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀμφίσβαινα 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