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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Sommer derives it from ἐμέω (eméō, “to vomit”), because the animal, when breathing out below the surface of water, continuously releases air bubbles. However, Beekes states that -ud- is not an Indo-European suffix, concluding that the word is probably Pre-Greek. The variation ἀ-/ἐ- is also proof of substrate origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.mýs/ → /eˈmys/ → /eˈmis/
Noun
ἐμῠ́ς • (emús) f (genitive ἐμῠ́δος); third declension
- freshwater tortoise (Emys orbicularis)
Usage notes
This word is primarily feminine but sometimes masculine, as in:
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ ἐμῠ́ς ho, hē emús
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τὼ ἐμῠ́δε tṑ emúde
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οἱ, αἱ ἐμῠ́δες hoi, hai emúdes
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τοῦ, τῆς ἐμῠ́δος toû, tês emúdos
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τοῖν ἐμῠ́δοιν toîn emúdoin
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τῶν ἐμῠ́δων tôn emúdōn
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τῷ, τῇ ἐμῠ́δῐ tôi, têi emúdi
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τοῖν ἐμῠ́δοιν toîn emúdoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς ἐμῠ́σῐ / ἐμῠ́σῐν toîs, taîs emúsi(n)
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τὸν, τὴν ἐμῠ́δᾰ tòn, tḕn emúda
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τὼ ἐμῠ́δε tṑ emúde
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐμῠ́δᾰς toùs, tā̀s emúdas
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ἐμῠ́ς emús
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ἐμῠ́δε emúde
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ἐμῠ́δες emúdes
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἐμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐμύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐμύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐμύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419