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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally taken as "eaten by deer", from ἐλλός (ellós, “deer”) + βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”). However, Beekes finds this seems very doubtful, preferring a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hel.lé.bo.ros/ → /elˈle.βo.ros/ → /eˈle.vo.ros/
Noun
ἑλλέβορος • (helléboros) m (genitive ἑλλεβόρου); second declension
- hellebore (plant of the genus Helleborus)
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Further reading
- “ἑλλέβορος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑλλέβορος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἑλλέβορος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἑλλέβορος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλλέβορος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413