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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”). Displaced the reflex of Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.del.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /a.ðelˈɸi/ → /a.ðelˈfi/
Noun
ἀδελφή • (adelphḗ) f (genitive ἀδελφῆς); first declension
- sister
- some other female relation, such as wife or cousin
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἀδελφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀδελφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀδελφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀδελφή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G79 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.