glos

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From the Proto-Indo-European *ǵl̥h₂ōws (“sister-in-law”). Cognates include Ancient Greek γάλως (gálōs), Old Church Slavonic зълъва (zŭlŭva) (whence Russian золо́вка (zolóvka)), Phrygian γέλαρος (gélaros), and Old Armenian տալ (tal).

glōs f (genitive glōris); third declension

(Classical Latin) the sister of one’s husband, one’s sister-in-law
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 98, line 5:
  Glos, viri soror, a Graeco γαλόως.
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(Late Latin and Medieval Latin) the wife of one’s brother, one’s sister-in-law
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More information singular, plural ...

“glos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"2. GLOS", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
glōris glōs, glōris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 716/2.
“glos”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
“glōs” on page 767/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “glos”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 470/2

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