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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Pre-Greek. Compare also μάχαιρα (mákhaira, “large sword”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /má.ɡeː.ros/ → /ˈma.ʝi.ros/ → /ˈma.ʝi.ros/
Noun
μᾰ́γειρος • (mágeiros) m (genitive μᾰγείρου); second declension
- cook
- butcher
- Synonym: ἄρτᾰμος (ártamos)
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “μάγειρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάγειρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μάγειρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
Noun
μάγειρος • (mágeiros) m (plural μάγειροι)
- Alternative form of μάγειρας (mágeiras)
Declension