λάμος

See also: Λάμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from the same Pre-Greek root of λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”) and λαμυρός (lamurós, “full of abysses; gluttonous”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /áb.dɛːs/ → /ˈaβ.ðis/ → /ˈav.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /áb.dɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈab.de̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈaβ.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈav.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈav.ðis/

Noun

λάμος • (lámos)

1. according to a scholium of Horace, this word means: ingluvies (“crop of birds”).

Further reading

• “λάμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press