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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly a Pre-Greek word, like κυψέλη (kupsélē, “beehive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kýp.se.los/ → /ˈcyp.se.los/ → /ˈcip.se.los/
Noun
κῠ́ψελος • (kúpselos) m (genitive κῠψέλου); second declension
- swift (Apus apus)
- Synonym: ἄπους (ápous)
Inflection
Further reading
- “κύψελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύψελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κυψέλη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 811