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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”) + -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.pís/ → /leˈpis/ → /leˈpis/
Noun
λεπῐ́ς • (lepís) f (genitive λεπῐ́δος); third declension
- scale, flake, shell, husk
- epithelial debris
- plate of metal
- blade of a saw
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References
- “λεπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεπίς 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
- G3013 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.