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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the word is from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix, found also in λᾶϊγξ (lâïnx), πύλιγξ (púlinx) and στροφάλιγξ (strophálinx).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥a.tʰá.miŋks/ → /raˈθa.miŋks/ → /raˈθa.miŋks/
Noun
ῥᾰθᾰ́μῐγξ • (rhatháminx) f (genitive ῥᾰθᾰ́μῐγγος); third declension
- drop (of liquids)
- Synonyms: πέμφιξ (pémphix), ῥανίς (rhanís), σταγών (stagṓn), στράγξ (stránx), ψακάς (psakás), ψιάς (psiás)
- grain, bit (of solids)
- spot, speckle
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ῥαθάμιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥαθάμιγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥαθάμιγξ 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