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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Furnée, the prothetic vowel points to Pre-Greek origin. On the other hand, Lewy connects the word with Hebrew שחור (shakhór, “black”), because the leaves of this plant have small black dots.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ás.ky.ron/ → /ˈas.cy.ron/ → /ˈas.ci.ron/
Noun
ἄσκῠρον • (áskuron) n (genitive ἀσκῠ́ρου); second declension
- St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
- Synonyms: ἀνδρόσαιμον (andrósaimon), ὑπέρεικος (hupéreikos)
- water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)
- Synonym: ἄλισμα (álisma)
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Further reading
- “ἄσκυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄσκυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄσκυρον 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47