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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō, “to cut out”) + -η (-ē, verbal noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek.to.mɛ̌ː/ → /ek.toˈmi/ → /ek.toˈmi/
Noun
ἐκτομή • (ektomḗ) f (genitive ἐκτομῆς); first declension
- a cutting out
- castration
- a segment
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐκτομή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐκτομή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐκτομή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐκτομή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἐκτομή 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.