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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, possibly from the same Pre-Greek root of θώς (thṓs, “jackal”) and θῶσθαι (thôsthai, “to eat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰǒi̯.nɛː/ → /ˈθy.ni/ → /ˈθi.ni/
Noun
θοίνη • (thoínē) f (genitive θοίνης); first declension
- meal, feast, banquet
- food
Inflection
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Further reading
- “θοίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θοίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θοίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN