ἄβδης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /áb.dɛːs/ → /ˈaβ.ðis/ → /ˈav.ðis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /áb.dɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈab.de̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈaβ.ðis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈav.ðis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈav.ðis/

Noun

ἄβδης • (ábdēs)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: μάστιξ (mástix, “whip, scourge”).

Further reading

• “ἄβδης”, 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: α