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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛː.la.ka.tɛ̌ːn/ → /i.la.kaˈtin/ → /i.la.kaˈtin/
Noun
ἠλᾰκᾰτήν • (ēlăkătḗn) m (genitive ἠλᾰκᾰτῆνος); third declension
- (usually in the plural) a large sea-fish, probably a kind of tunny
400 BCE – 300 BCE, Mnesimachus,
Collected Works 4.35
Mnaseas 33
- AD 2nd C., Aelius Herodianus (aut.), Augustus Lentz (ed.), Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας in Grammatici Graeci III: Herodiani technici reliquiae I: Praefationem et Herodiani Prosodiam catholicam continens (1867), bk i, p. 16, ll. 6–8:
Τὰ εἰς ην ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς χαίρουσι τῇ ὀξείᾳ οἷον ἀτταγήν, κορδυλήν, μαριθήν, δοθιήν, ἠλακατήν ὄνομα ἰχθύος κητώδους καὶ κύριον.- Tà eis ēn hupèr dúo sullabàs khaírousi têi oxeíāi hoîon attagḗn, kordulḗn, marithḗn, dothiḗn, ēlakatḗn ónoma ikhthúos kētṓdous kaì kúrion.
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