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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂i-men (“to tie, bind”), like ἱμάς (himás, “leathern strap”), ἱμάω (himáō, “to draw up water from a well”) and ἱμονιά (himoniá, “well-rope”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi.más.tʰlɛː/ → /iˈmas.θli/ → /iˈmas.θli/
Noun
ἱμᾰ́σθλη • (himásthlē) f (genitive ἱμᾰ́σθλης); first declension
- thong of a whip
- (figuratively) rudder of a ship
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἱμάσθλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱμάσθλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἱμάσθλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἱμάσθλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἱμάσθλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963