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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown; possibly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰríks/ → /θriks/ → /θriks/
Noun
θρῐ́ξ • (thríx) f (genitive τρῐχός); third declension
- hair
Inflection
The declension unusually shows the nominative singular's initial consonant being aspirated while the other forms lack it owing to Grassmann's law. The nominative singular and dative plural retained their initial aspiration due to the root χ losing its aspiration before the ending starting with -ς.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “θρίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρίξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θρίξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θρίξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- θρίξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2359 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fur idem, page 350.
- hair idem, page 380.
- 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