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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Solmsen assumed an Anatolian origin, but it is probably just Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛː.la.ká.tɛː/ → /i.laˈka.ti/ → /i.laˈka.ti/
Noun
ἠλᾰκᾰ́τη • (ēlakátē) f (genitive ἠλᾰκᾰ́της); first declension
- distaff, spindle
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἠλᾰκάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἠλακάτη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἠλακάτη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN