Talk:grypas
Latest comment: 2 months ago by Urszag in topic RFV discussion: February–April 2024
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gryps nominative variants (Latin)
Latin. Both of these have been added as Latin lemmas for "griffin", allegedly from Modern Greek γρύπας (grýpas)}. I think they're more likely to be non-lemma accusative plural forms of gryps/grips taken from γρῦπας, the accusative plural of Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps). Urszag (talk) 11:17, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- Going back to the original text (a fourth-century translation of the Alexander Romance quoted in A Primer of Medieval Latin by Charles H. Beeson, I think you might be right. Here’s the original sentence:
- Praeparavi ingenium sederem et apprehendi griphas atque liguieas cum catenis …
- with griphas glossed as “=grypas” in a footnote. D A Hosek (talk) 01:17, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
- OK, marking as RFV-resolved since these seem to be established to be non-lemma forms.--Urszag (talk) 01:05, 3 April 2024 (UTC)