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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μαγῆμαι (magêmai) + -ια (-ia), the former component from μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mâːz.da/ → /ˈma.za/ → /ˈma.za/
Noun
μᾶζᾰ • (mâza) f (genitive μᾱ́ζης); first declension
- barley-bread or cake; lump, mass
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References
Further reading
- “μᾶζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μᾶζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μᾶζα 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.