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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée concludes from the possible connection with σφαλλός (sphallós, “round block of wood”) that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spʰé.las/ → /ˈsɸe.las/ → /ˈsfe.las/
Noun
σφέλᾰς • (sphélas) n (genitive σφέλᾰος); third declension
- footstool
- Synonyms: θρῆνυς (thrênus), ὑποπόδιον (hupopódion)
- pedestal of a statue
- hollow block of wood, for putting anything into
Declension
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Further reading
- “σφέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σφέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σφέλας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σφέλας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σφέλας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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