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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós (enclosure). Cognates include Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá), Latin hortus, and Old English ġeard (English yard).[1]

χόρτος (khórtosm (genitive χόρτου); second declension

  1. feeding place for animals, barn, pasture
  2. foodstuff for animals, fodder, hay, grass
    Synonym: πόα (póa)
  3. (in general) food
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χόρτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1644-5