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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō, “cut out”) + -ῐ́ᾱς (-íās, noun-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek.to.mí.aːs/ → /ek.toˈmi.as/ → /ek.toˈmi.as/
Noun
ἐκτομίᾱς • (ektomíās) m (genitive ἐκτομίου); first declension
- one that is castrated, a eunuch
- ἐκτομίᾱν ποιεῖν τινα ― ektomíān poieîn tina ― to make someone a eunuch
Declension
Further reading
- ἐκτομίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐκτομίας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἐκτομίας”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἐκτομίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press