Ancient Greek

Noun

ἄνθραξ • ‎(ánthrax) m ‎(genitive ἄνθρακος); third declension

1. charcoal
2. a deep red precious stone, a carbuncle
3. an abscess, a boil, a carbuncle

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀνθρακιά ‎(ἀnthrakiá)

Descendants

• English: anthrax, anthr-
• Greek: άνθρακας ‎(ánthrakas)
• Russian: антрацит ‎(antracit)

References

• ἄνθραξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄνθραξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἄνθραξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἄνθραξ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G440”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • carbon idem, page 113.
  • charcoal idem, page 125.
  • coal idem, page 140.