ἄβδης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /áb.dɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈab.des/
(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)

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

References

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

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