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Ancient Greek
Etymology
An instrument name in -τρον (-tron) without explanation. It may belong to λίς (lís, “smooth, even”) and λισσός (lissós, “smooth”). Comparisons with Lithuanian lýdyti (“to dig up, unearth”) and Latin līra (“furrow”) have been given up.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lís.tron/ → /ˈlis.tron/ → /ˈlis.tron/
Noun
λῐ́στρον • (lĭ́stron) n (genitive λῐ́στρου); second declension
- tool for levelling or smoothing, spade, shovel
Inflection
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Further reading
- “λίστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λίστρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λίστρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λίστρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λίστρον 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