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  • (In Greek, leios means smooth, and kephale means brain or head.)

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • In Greek, leios means smooth, and kephale means brain or head.

    India eNews 2009

  • a place: he further observed the liquid movement of lambda, in the pronunciation of which the tongue slips, and in this he found the expression of smoothness, as in leios (level), and in the word oliothanein (to slip) itself, liparon (sleek), in the word kollodes

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

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  • Greek Smooth.

    July 11, 2008