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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally compared to Old English hrot (“mucus”) but Beekes doesn't dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.ryːz.da/ → /ˈko.ry.za/ → /ˈko.ri.za/
Noun
κόρῡζᾰ • (kórūza) f (genitive κορῡ́ζης); first declension
- rheum, mucous discharge from the nose
- Synonyms: βλέννα (blénna), λέμφος (lémphos), μύξα (múxa)
- drivelling, stupidity
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Further reading
- “κόρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόρυζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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