Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-GreekCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate#ΑΒΔΗΣ.

Pronunciation

Noun

ἄβδης • (ábdēs)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΑΒΔΗΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΑΒΔΗΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΑΒΔΗΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΑΒΔΗΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΑΒΔΗΣ

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

Further reading

• “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