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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tr̥-ped-ih₂- (“having three feet”), from *tr̥- (“three”, combining form) + *pṓds (“foot”). The first element is conventionally linked to *kʷtur- (“four”, combining form) (which is explicitly favored by Beekes over the connection to "three"),[1] but Sihler (1995, p. 411) points out that early tables had three legs, not four.[2] Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀟𐀼 (to-pe-za).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trá.pez.da/ → /ˈtra.pe.za/ → /ˈtra.pe.za/
Noun
τρᾰ́πεζᾰ • (trápeza) f (genitive τρᾰπέζης); first declension
- a table
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τράπεζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1499
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Further reading
- “τράπεζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τράπεζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τράπεζα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τράπεζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τράπεζα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τράπεζα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5132 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τράπεζα (trápeza).
Noun
τράπεζα • (trápeza) f (plural τράπεζες)
- (finance) bank
- ceremonial table
Declension
- and compare with: τραπέζι n (trapézi, “table”)
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