δείλη

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (heaven, sky), thus related to δῆλος (dêlos, clear, visible) and cognate to Latin dies

Pronunciation

 

Noun

δείλη (deílēf (genitive δείλης); first declension

  1. afternoon

Inflection

References

  • δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • δείλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • δείλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • δείλη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011