κυέω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁-éye-ti, from *ḱewh₁- (to swell).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Verb

κῠέω • (kŭéō)

  1. (transitive) to be pregnant with (said of both humans and animals)
  2. (intransitive) to be pregnant

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κυέω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 797

Further reading

  • κυέω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κυέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κυέω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • κυέω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
  • κυέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κυέω in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.