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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally held to be related to ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) and ὄστρεον (óstreon, “oyster”). Beekes considers it more likely to be Pre-Greek, which does not exclude a relation to ὄστρεον (óstreon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ós.tra.kon/ → /ˈos.tra.kon/ → /ˈos.tra.kon/
Noun
ὄστρᾰκον • (óstrakon) n (genitive ὀστρᾰ́κου); second declension
- earthen vessel
- fragment of such a vessel, potsherd
- earthen castanet
- the hard shell of animals such as mollusks and turtles
- mother of pearl
- eggshell
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Further reading
- “ὄστρακον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄστρακον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὄστρακον 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.
- 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