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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to ὄροβος (órobos) with a Pre-Greek suffix. Other cognates are Proto-Germanic *arwīts and Latin ervum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ré.bin.tʰos/ → /eˈre.βin.θos/ → /eˈre.vin.θos/
Noun
ἐρέβῐνθος • (erébinthos) m (genitive ἐρεβῐ́νθου); second declension
- chickpea
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References
- “ἐρέβινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐρέβινθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἐρέβινθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἐρέβινθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐρέβινθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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