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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Ernout and Meillet (endorsed by Beekes), a loanword, likely borrowed from Sanskrit उपल (upala, “gem, stone”),[1][2] possibly a variant of उपर (upara, “lower”), from उप (upa, “below, under, down”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.pál.li.os/ → /oˈpal.li.os/ → /oˈpa.li.os/
Noun
ὀπᾰ́λλῐος • (opắllĭos) m (genitive ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου); second declension (Byzantine)
- opal
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀπάλλιος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1089
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “opalus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 462
- ^ “opal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “ὀπάλλιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀπάλλιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὀπάλλιος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011