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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. Frisk suggests a connection with ἔρῑθος (érīthos); others propose a possible link to ἐρυθρός (eruthrós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.rǐː.tʰa.kos/ → /eˈri.θa.kos/ → /eˈri.θa.kos/
Noun
ἐρῑ́θακος • (erī́thakos) m (genitive ἐρῑθάκου); second declension
- a type of bird, most likely the robin redbreast, Erithacus rubecula; a robin
- a mimetic talking bird, such as a parrot or raven
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Further reading
- “ἐρίθακος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐρίθακος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐρίθακος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 458
- Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth (1895) “ἘΡΙΘΑΚΟΣ”, in A Glossary of Greek Birds, London: Clarendon Press, Oxford, →OCLC, page 57