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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πτερόν (pterón, “feather”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pté.ris/ → /ˈpte.ris/ → /ˈpte.ris/
Noun
πτέρῐς • (ptéris) f (genitive πτέρεως); third declension
- male fern (Aspidium filix-mas)
- polypody (Polypodium vulgare)
- (the phrase, νυμφαία πτερίς) bracken (Pteris aquilina)
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- “πτερίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պտեր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 110–111