Alternative forms

• γαῦσος (gaûsos)

Etymology

The word shares the formation with βλαισός (blaisós, “crooked”) and λοξός (loxós, “oblique”). The adjective has been compared with γαυλός (gaulós), γύρος (gúros) and γύαλον (gúalon) without success. According to Beekes, the word is from Pre-GreekCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate#ΓΑΥΣΟΣ instead.

Pronunciation

Adjective

γαυσός • (gausós) m (feminine γαυσή, neuter γαυσόν)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΓΑΥΣΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek adjectives#ΓΑΥΣΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek oxytone terms#ΓΑΥΣΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΓΑΥΣΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΓΑΥΣΟΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΓΑΥΣΟΣ; first/second declension

1. crooked, bent outwards

Further reading

• “γαυσός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γαυσός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γαυσός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• 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