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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂leh₁wr̥. Cognate with Old Armenian ալեւր (alewr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.leu̯.ron/ → /ˈa.le.βron/ → /ˈa.le.vron/
Noun
ἄλευρον • (áleuron) n (genitive ἀλεύρου); second declension (chiefly in the plural)
- wheat flour, wheatmeal
430 BCE, Herodotus, “Book VII, Polyymnia”, in Histories, section 119:Οἱ ἀστοὶ ἄλευρά τε καὶ ἄλφιτα ἐποίευν πάντες ἐπὶ μῆνας συχνούς.- Hoi astoì áleurá te kaì álphita epoíeun pántes epì mênas sukhnoús.
- The citizens continued to make wheatmeal and barleymeal for many months.
- Synonym: ἀλείατα (aleíata), ἀλέατα (aléata) (Homeric)
- meal
Usage notes
Particularly differentiated from ἄλφιτα (álphita, “barley flour, barleymeal”) (see Herodotus quote).
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