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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kyː.rɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /cyˈri.ni/ → /ciˈri.ni/
Proper noun
Κῡρήνη • (Kūrḗnē) f (genitive Κῡρήνης); first declension
- Cyrene, an ancient city in what is now Libya.
- Cyrene or Kyrene, a character in Greek mythology.
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References
- “Κυρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Κυρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2957 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN