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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Generally taken as deriving from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + σφάλλω (sphállō, “to fall, cast down”), under the assumption that it denoted the material that protects walls from tumbling down. However, according to Beekes, the word is rather Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ás.pʰal.tos/ → /ˈas.ɸal.tos/ → /ˈas.fal.tos/
Noun
ἄσφᾰλτος • (ásphaltos) f or m (genitive ἀσφᾰ́λτου); second declension
- asphalt, bitumen
Declension
ὁ, ἡ ἄσφᾰλτος ho, hē ásphaltos
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τὼ ἀσφᾰ́λτω tṑ aspháltō
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οἱ, αἱ ἄσφᾰλτοι hoi, hai ásphaltoi
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τοῦ, τῆς ἀσφᾰ́λτου toû, tês aspháltou
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τοῖν ἀσφᾰ́λτοιν toîn aspháltoin
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τῶν ἀσφᾰ́λτων tôn aspháltōn
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τῷ, τῇ ἀσφᾰ́λτῳ tôi, têi aspháltōi
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τοῖν ἀσφᾰ́λτοιν toîn aspháltoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς ἀσφᾰ́λτοις toîs, taîs aspháltois
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τὸν, τὴν ἄσφᾰλτον tòn, tḕn ásphalton
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τὼ ἀσφᾰ́λτω tṑ aspháltō
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἀσφᾰ́λτους toùs, tā̀s aspháltous
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ἄσφᾰλτε ásphalte
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ἀσφᾰ́λτω aspháltō
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ἄσφᾰλτοι ásphaltoi
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ἄσφαλτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄσφαλτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄσφαλτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄσφαλτος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ἄσφαλτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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