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Ancient Greek
Etymology
If related to Latvian pelt (“to revile”), the Proto-Indo-European root would be *h₂pelH- (“to speak publicly”). Assuming s-mobile, this word has further been compared with Proto-Germanic *spellą (“tale, story”) and Old Armenian առասպել (aṙaspel, “myth, legend”). In view of the many additional hypotheses required, this seems rather far-fetched.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.peː.lɛ̌ː/ → /a.piˈli/ → /a.piˈli/
Noun
ἀπειλή • (apeilḗ) f (genitive ἀπειλῆς); first declension
- (mostly in the plural) boastful promises, boasts
- (mostly in the plural) threat, menace, threatening condition
- Synonym: βρῑ́μη (brī́mē)
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References
- “ἀπειλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀπειλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀπειλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀπειλή 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