Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /eŋkéɸalos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eɲcéfalos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ẽɟéfalos/

Adjective

ἐγκέφαλος • ‎(enképhalos) m, f ‎(neuter ἐγκέφαλον); second declension

1. inside the head
2. (in masculine, substantive)
   1. brain
   2. heart of the date palm

Inflection

Derived terms

• Διὸς ἐγκέφαλος ‎(Diòs enképhalos, “rare and costly food”)

References

• ἐγκέφαλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐγκέφαλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐγκέφαλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἐγκέφαλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἐγκέφαλος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἐγκέφαλος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἐγκέφαλος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brain idem, page 93.
  • pith idem, page 615.