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φιμός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. According to Beekes, the similarity of the suffix with κημός (kēmós, “muzzle”) is notable, while the relation with φιτρός (phitrós, “block of wood”) seems improbable.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰiː.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰiˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸiˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fiˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈmos/
Noun
φῑμός • (phīmós) m (genitive φῑμοῦ); second declension
- muzzle for dogs, calves
- gag
- noseband
- cup used as a dicebox
- tightening, constriction by means of ropes
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: phīmus
Further reading
- “φιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φιμός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1574
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