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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from ῥέπω (rhépō, “to decline, descend”), but perhaps not related to the verb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ó.pa.lon/ → /ˈro.pa.lon/ → /ˈro.pa.lon/
Noun
ῥόπᾰλον • (rhópalon) n (genitive ῥοπᾰ́λου); second declension
- club, cudgel, mace shod with metal
- Synonym: κορύνη (korúnē)
- hunter's staff
- penis
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ῥόπαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥόπαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥόπαλον 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