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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Phoenician (compare Hebrew נֵרְדְּ (nērd), Aramaic נִרְדָּא (nirdā), Akkadian 𒆠𒆗 (HIRIM /lardu/), Arabic رَنْد (rand), Old South Arabian 𐩧𐩬𐩵 (rnd)), possibly from Sanskrit नलद (nálada, “Indian narde”) (although a Semitic-to-Indian loan has also been suggested).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nár.dos/ → /ˈnar.ðos/ → /ˈnar.ðos/
Noun
νᾰ́ρδος • (nắrdos) f (genitive νᾰ́ρδου); second declension
- nard plant, spikenard, nardin, muskroot
- nard oil, a highly prized ointment made from the plant
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References
Further reading
- “νάρδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νάρδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νάρδος 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 40
- G3487 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- νάρδος nardos nard oil, in Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament edited by Horst Balz, Gerhard Schneider.
- Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 276–277
- “nard”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “νάρδος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos).
Noun
νάρδος • (nárdos) m or f (plural νάρδοι)
- valerian, nard, spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora).
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