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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the presence of a variant and the ending in -ξ (-x) indicate a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nár.tʰɛːks/ → /ˈnar.θiks/ → /ˈnar.θiks/
Noun
νᾰ́ρθηξ • (nárthēx) m (genitive νᾰ́ρθηκος); third declension
- giant fennel (Ferula communis)
- casket for unguents
- (architecture) vestibule in a church
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Further reading
- “νάρθηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νάρθηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νάρθηξ 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