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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐκκῠκλέω (ekkŭkléō, “I roll out”) + -μᾰ (-mă, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek.ký.klɛː.ma/ → /eˈcy.kli.ma/ → /eˈci.kli.ma/
Noun
ἐκκῠ́κλημᾰ • (ekkŭ́klēmă) n (genitive ἐκκῠκλήμᾰτος); third declension
- a wheeled device used in ancient Greek plays, which could be rolled out to portray the interior of a set
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἐκκύκλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐκκύκλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐκκύκλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐκκύκλημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἐκκύκλημα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- A History of Classical Literature, Volume 1, by Robert William Browne (R. Bentley, 1851), page 325.