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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to Albanian darkë (“evening meal”), but further connections are unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dór.pon/ → /ˈðor.pon/ → /ˈðor.pon/
Noun
δόρπον • (dórpon) n (genitive δόρπου); second declension (Epic, Doric)
- evening meal, dinner, supper
- (later Epic) food, meal
Declension
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Further reading
- “δόρπον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- δόρπον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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, page 348