λάττα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek, due to the presence of the geminates "-ττ-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lát.ta/ → /ˈlat.ta/ → /ˈla.ta/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lát.ta/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.ta/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.ta/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈlat.ta/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ta/

Noun

λάττα • (látta)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: μυῖα (muîa, “fly”).

References

• “λάττα”, 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: λ