μόλοφθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -φθ-

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.lopʰ.tʰos/ → /ˈmo.loɸ.θos/ → /ˈmo.lof.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.lopʰ.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lopʰ.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.loɸ.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lof.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lof.θos/

Noun

μόλοφθος • (mólophthos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἐγκρυφίας (enkruphías, “loaf baked in the ashes”).

References

• “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