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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰénwr̥ (“flat of the hand, palm”). Compare Sanskrit धन्वन् (dhanvan) and Old High German tenar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰé.nar/ → /ˈθe.nar/ → /ˈθe.nar/
Noun
θένᾰρ • (thénar) n (genitive θένᾰρος); third declension
- the palm of the hand
- the flat of the foot
- the flat top of an altar
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “θέναρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θέναρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θέναρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θέναρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θέναρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “θέναρ”, 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.