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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the same Pre-Greek source as Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀈𐀛𐀊 (ku-do-ni-ja).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ky.dɔː.ní.aː/ → /cy.ðoˈni.a/ → /ci.ðoˈni.a/
Proper noun
Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱ • (Kudōníā) f (genitive Κῠδωνῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Cydonia, Crete, Greece
- an epithet of the goddess Athena
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- “Κυδώνιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007