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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“important speech”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /âi̯.nos/ → /ˈɛ.nos/ → /ˈe.nos/
Noun
αἶνος • (aînos) m (genitive αἴνου); second declension
- tale or story; story with a moral, fable
- praise
St. Luke,
The Gospel of Luke 18.43:
- καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀνέβλεψεν, καὶ ἠκολούθει αὐτῷ δοξάζων τὸν θεόν. καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἰδὼν ἔδωκεν αἶνον τῷ θεῷ.
- kaì parakhrêma anéblepsen, kaì ēkoloúthei autôi doxázōn tòn theón. kaì pâs ho laòs idṑn édōken aînon tôi theôi.
- And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God. (King James Version)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “αἶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αἶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “αἶνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αἶνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αἶνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- αἶνος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “αἶνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G136 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- αἶνος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adage idem, page 10.
- aenus idem, page 15.
- aphorism idem, page 34.
- commendation idem, page 147.
- credit idem, page 183.
- description idem, page 214.
- eulogy idem, page 284.
- laudation idem, page 478.
- legend idem, page 484.
- maxim idem, page 519.
- myth idem, page 549.
- narrative idem, page 551.
- parable idem, page 591.
- praise idem, page 631.
- proverb idem, page 654.
- saying idem, page 736.
- tale idem, page 854.