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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Considered to be a verbal noun to ἄημι (áēmi, “to blow”), so "blowing". However, there is no semantical support for this connection; the etymology was merely suggested by the formal appearance. Rather, the word is a technical term, as remarked by DELG. It remains without etymology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.ɔː.ton/ → /ˈa.o.ton/ → /ˈa.o.ton/
Noun
ἄωτον • (áōton) n (genitive ἀώτου); second declension
- finest wool
- the choicest, the flower of its kind
- flock, down
- that which gives honour and glory to a thing
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἄωτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄωτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄωτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄωτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄωτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄωτον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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