ψαῖσμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ψαίω (psaíō, “to grind, to triturate”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psâi̯z.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpsɛz.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpsɛz.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpsez.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpsez.ma/
Noun
ψαῖσμα • (psaîsma)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: σῖτον (sîton, “bread”) and ὀλίγον (olígon, “small, little”).
References
- ψαῖσμα 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: ψ