ὄρυζα

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See also: όρυζα

Ancient Greek

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Etymology

A borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language. See the Iranian forms in Middle Persian blnc (/⁠brinǰ⁠/), especially the forms without the nasal infix.

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Noun

ὄρυζᾰ (óruzaf (genitive ὀρύζης); first declension

  1. rice (Oryza sativa)

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References

  • ὄρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὄρυζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • rice idem, page 712.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1112f
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 597f