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Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
Furnée compares the word with τρόνα (tróna, “statues; colorful stitchings”), which proves Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰró.non/ → /ˈθro.non/ → /ˈθro.non/
Noun
θρόνον • (thrónon) n (genitive θρόνου); second declension
- (in the plural) flowers embroidered on cloth
- (in the plural) (botany) herbs used as drugs and charms
Inflection
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰró.non/ → /ˈθro.non/ → /ˈθro.non/
Noun
θρόνον • (thrónon) m
- accusative singular of θρόνος (thrónos)
Further reading
- “θρόνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρόνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θρόνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θρόνον 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