μόλοφθος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editAccording to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -φθ-
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mó.lopʰ.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lopʰ.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.loɸ.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lof.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmo.lof.θos/
Noun
editμόλοφθος • (mólophthos)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἐγκρυφίας (enkruphías, “loaf baked in the ashes”).
References
edit- “μόλοφθος”, 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: μ