ὁλοθούριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὅλος (hólos, whole) + θούριος (thoúrios, sexually aroused), referring to phallic shape of sea cucumbers.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὁλοθούρῐον • (holothoúrĭonn (genitive ὁλοθουρῐ́ου); second declension

  1. the holothurium, a kind of zoophyte

Inflection

References

  1. ^ Guasparri, Andrea (2017). "Greek ὁλοθούριον (the sea cucumber)". Glotta, Bd. 93, pp. 31-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26356180

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