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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hyalus m (genitive hyalī); second declension
- glass (especially greenish glass)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “hyalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hyalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hyalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “hyalus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin