σέμελος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown, but perhaps from the same Pre-Greek root of σέσιλος (sésilos, “land slug”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sé.me.los/ → /ˈse.me.los/ → /ˈse.me.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sé.me.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.me.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.me.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.me.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈse.me.los/

Noun

σέμελος • (sémelos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: κοχλίας (kokhlías, “snail with a spiral shell”).

References

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