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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. It has been connected with ἕλος (hélos, “marsh”), but Beekes points out that this has spiritus asper.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.lý.dri.on/ → /eˈly.ðri.on/ → /eˈli.ðri.on/
Noun
ἐλῠ́δρῐον • (elúdrion) n (genitive ἐλῠδρῐ́ου); second declension
- greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
- Synonyms: ὀθόννᾰ (othónna), χελιδόνιον (khelidónion)
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἐλύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλύδριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλύδριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλύδριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416