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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word has been confronted to Phrygian βεκος ακκαλος (bekos akkalos). A connection with Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat, consume”) does not explain the formation. A suggestion by Furnée is to connect it to κόλον (kólon, “type of food preserved in pots”). Nothing suggests an identity with ἄκυλος (ákulos, “acorn”). Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ko.los/ → /ˈa.ko.los/ → /ˈa.ko.los/
Noun
ἄκολος • (ákolos) m (genitive ἀκόλου); second declension
- morsel, bit
- Synonyms: ἀττᾰ́ρᾰγος (attáragos), βλωμός (blōmós), ψῑ́ξ (psī́x), ψωμός (psōmós)
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἄκολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄκολος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄκολος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄκολος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄκολος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄκολος 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