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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a previous form ϝίτυς (wítus), from Proto-Hellenic *wítus, that proves a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to twist, to twine”). Cognate with Latin vitus (“felloe”), Ancient Greek ἰτέα (itéa, “willow”), ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”), οἶσος (oîsos, “withy”), Albanian vithe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /í.tys/ → /ˈi.tys/ → /ˈi.tis/
Noun
ἴτῠς • (ítus) f (genitive ἴτῠος); third declension
- felloe of a wheel
- rim of a shield
- the shield itself
Inflection
References
- “ἴτυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴτυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴτυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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