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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A loanword of unclear source, but possibly Egyptian in origin. Compare Biblical Hebrew יָשְׁפֵה (yāšəfēh, “jasper”), Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒅀𒀸𒁍 (/yašpû/, “name of a stone”) (whence Classical Syriac ܝܫܦܐ (jaʃpɑ(ʔ), “jasper”)). Persian یشپ (yašp) is from the same source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /í.as.pis/ → /ˈi.as.pis/ → /ˈi.as.pis/
Noun
ῐ̓́ᾰσπῐς • (íaspis) f (genitive ῐ̓ᾰ́σπῐδος); third declension
- jasper
- black turnip (Bongardia chrysogonum)
- Synonyms: ἀρκόφθαλμον (arkóphthalmon), χρῡσόγονον (khrūsógonon)
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Further reading
- “ἴασπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴασπις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴασπις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2393 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.
- 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