Ancient Greek edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

According to Frisk an inherited Indo-European word for “throat, gorge”, cognate to Latin frūmen and Old Armenian երբուծ (erbuc), both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (to use, enjoy), but phonetically this is somewhat problematic as the Greek form requires laryngeal metathesis to *bʰr̥Hug-, turning the root disyllabic, for unknown reasons. Alternatively, it could be related to φᾰ́ρᾰγξ (pháranx, ravine, cleft, chasm, gully, abyss) or φᾶρος (phâros, cloth, cloak), also of disputed origin.

Beekes pointed out that the prenasalized suffix -ῠγγ- (or -ῠγ-) argues for a Pre-Greek origin. Compare λᾰ́ρῠγξ (lárunx).

Pronunciation edit

 

Noun edit

φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phárunxf or m (genitive φᾰ́ρῠγος or φᾰ́ρῠγγος); third declension

  1. throat, windpipe, esophagus, pharynx
  2. (zootomy) dewlap of a bull
  3. (in the plural, pathology) diseases of the throat
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Usage notes edit

  • Primarily feminine, rarely masculine.

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Greek: φάρυγγας (fáryngas)
  • New Latin: pharynx
  • Italian: faringe

See also edit

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Further reading edit

  • φάρυγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • φάρυγξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • φάρυγξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • 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
  • Frisk, Hjalmar (1970), “φάρυγξ”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 995
  • Lidén, Evald (1937), “Wortgeschichtliches”, in L. Hjelmslev, C. Höeg, Ch. Møller, Ad. Stender-Petersen, editors, Mélanges linguistiques offerts à M. Holger Pedersen à l’occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire, 7 avril 1937 (Acta Jutlandica: Aarsskrift for Aarhus Universitet; IX1) (in German), København: Levin & Munksgaard, page 92