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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos and cognate with Latin frīgus (“cold, frost”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥îː.ɡos/ → /ˈri.ɣos/ → /ˈri.ɣos/
Noun
ῥῖγος • (rhîgos) n (genitive ῥῑ́γεος); third declension
- frost, cold, chilliness
- shivering fit, as in ague
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Further reading
- “ῥῖγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥῖγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥῖγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥῖγος 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