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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic , from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis, with remodeling of the suffix like in other tree names (compare ἀκτέᾱ (aktéā, “elder (tree)”) and πτελέᾱ (pteléā, “elm”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iː.té.aː/ → /iˈte.a/ → /iˈte.a/
Noun
ῑ̓τέᾱ • (ītéā) f (genitive ῑ̓τέᾱς); first declension
- willow
- Synonym: ἑλίκη (helíkē)
Declension
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Further reading
- “ἰτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰτέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰτέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.