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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the stem of κατόψομαι (katópsomai) (root *h₃ekʷ- (“to see”)), future of καθοράω (kathoráō, “to behold”) + -τρον (-tron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.top.tron/ → /ˈka.top.tron/ → /ˈka.top.tron/
Noun
κάτοπτρον • (kátoptron) n (genitive κατόπτρου); second declension
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Further reading
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάτοπτρον 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
- (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κάτοπτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.