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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“mire, bog”).[1] Cognate with Latin Pannonia, Old Prussian pannean (“bog”), Middle Irish en (“water”), Dutch veen, Old English fenn (English fen).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛː.neː.ós/ → /pi.niˈos/ → /pi.niˈos/
Proper noun
Πηνειός • (Pēneiós) m (genitive Πηνειοῦ); second declension
- (Greek mythology) Peneus, a river god
- the river Peneus
Inflection
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “Πηνειός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Πηνειός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek Πηνειός (Pēneiós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.niˈos/
- Hyphenation: Πη‧νει‧ός
Proper noun
Πηνειός • (Pineiós) m
- Pineios (the chief river of Thessaly, Greece, which rises in the Pindus mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea)
- Pineios (a river in Elis, northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, which flows into the Ionian Sea)
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