- κέρκουρος
- κέρκουροςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `light, orig. Cyprian vessel' (Hdt., hell.), also name of a sea-fish (Opp.; cf. Strömberg Fischnamen 48).Compounds: Compp. ταυρο-κέρκουρος, κερκουρο-σκάφη name of diff. vessels (hell., pap.).Derivatives: Dim. κερκούριον (AP 5, 43; as f. PN); κερκουρίτης `sailor of a κ.' (hell., pap.; Redard Les noms grecs en -της 43).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Prop. as bahuvrihi `with a κέρκος-like back', unless folketymological adaptation of a foreign word. Semitic hypothesis by Movers in Lewy Fremdw. 152. See Chantraine Étrennes Benveniste 13f. - Lat. LW [loanword] cercūrus as fish-name (Ov., Plin.).Page in Frisk: 1,831
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.