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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from σχάζω (skházō, “to make an incision, let flow”), as is traditionally assumed, but the semantics of this etymology are vague.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʰa.dɔ̌ːn/ → /sxaˈðon/ → /sxaˈðon/
Noun
σχᾰδών • (skhadṓn) f (genitive σχᾰδόνος); third declension
- larva of the bee or wasp
- breeding-cell of the larva
- honey-cell
- (in the plural) honeycomb
- Synonym: κηρίον (kēríon)
Declension
Further reading
- “σχαδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σχαδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σχαδών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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