Jump to content

μέσπιλον

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Ancient Greek

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

A loanword of Pre-Greek origin[1] because no Indo-European cognates can be found, as plant names are more frequently borrowed and, particularly concerning this term, the medlar is native to the regions of Iran, southwest Asia and southeastern Europe and its Black Sea coasts so that it was unknown to the speakers of Proto-Indo-European and borrowing became necessary. Possibly a cognate to Proto-Kartvelian *sxmarṭl- (medlar) with metathesis of the initial consonants.

Pronunciation

[edit]
 

Noun

[edit]

μέσπιλον (méspilonn (genitive μεσπίλου); second declension

  1. medlar (Mespilus germanica)
    Synonyms: ἐπῐμηλῐ́ς (epimēlís), σητᾰ́νῐον (sētánion)

Inflection

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “μέσπιλον”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 215

Further reading

[edit]