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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ózdos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ósdos (“branch, twig”). Cognate with Old Armenian ոստ (ost, “branch; knot (of tree)”), Old English ōst (“tree knot”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /óz.dos/ → /ˈo.zos/ → /ˈo.zos/
Noun
ὄζος • (ózos) m (genitive ὄζου); second declension
- bough, branch, twig
- knot or eye on a tree
- (figuratively) offshoot, scion
Inflection
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “ὄζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄζος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄζος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄζος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὄζος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὄζος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.