Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὄστρειον ‎(óstreion)

Noun

ὄστρεον • ‎(óstreon) n ‎(genitive ὀστρέου); second declension

1. bivalve
2. oyster
3. purple pigment, probably that produced by murex

Inflection

Descendants

• Russian: устрица ‎(ustrica)

References

• ὄστρεον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄστρεον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὄστρεον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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