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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ϝῑρᾱξ, from Proto-Indo-European *wih₁rós (“hunter; man”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”), assuming an older Greek form *ϝῑρᾱξ (*wīrāx), with possible contamination from folk-etymological association with ἱερός (hierós, “holy, divine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi.é.raːks/ → /iˈe.raks/ → /iˈe.raks/
Noun
ἱέρᾱξ • (hiérāx) m (genitive ἱέρᾱκος); third declension
- hawk, falcon
- kind of fish
- name for a grade of initiates in Mithras worship
- name of a bandage
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Further reading
- “ἱέραξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱέραξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱέραξ 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