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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”) + -σις (-sis); also interpretable as σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”) + -ωσις (-ōsis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sklɛ̌ː.rɔː.sis/ → /ˈskli.ro.sis/ → /ˈskli.ro.sis/
Noun
σκλήρωσῐς • (sklḗrōsis) f (genitive σκληρώσεως); third declension
- hardening
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- σκλήρωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “σκλήρωσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “σκλήρωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press