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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg, nail”).
Noun
gomphus m (genitive gomphī); second declension
- nail, dowel, peg
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “gomphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gomphus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “gomphus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers