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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The suffix "-ινθος" proves a Pre-Greek origin. The form τερέβινθος (terébinthos) was perhaps influenced by ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos, “chickpea”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tér.min.tʰos/ → /ˈter.min.θos/ → /ˈter.min.θos/
Noun
τέρμῐνθος • (términthos) f (genitive τερμῐ́νθου); second declension
- terebinth (Pistacia terebinthus)
- Synonym: κρίτανος (krítanos)
- swelling like the fruit of the terebinth
- (botany) parasitic growth on the olive
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Further reading
- “τέρμινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέρμινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τέρμινθος 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