Παιάν
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain; cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 (pa-ja-wo-ne).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pai̯.ǎːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pɛˈan/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pɛˈan/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /peˈan/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /peˈan/
Proper noun
Παιᾱ́ν • (Paiā́n) m (genitive Παιᾶνος); third declension
Declension
Further reading
- Παιάν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Παιάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Παιάν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Παιάν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019