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Ancient Greek
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Etymology
A technical loan of unknown origin. The comparison with καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”) has little value, while the one with Proto-Slavic *kamy (“stone”) is possible. Note that the suffix "-ῑνος" is typical of Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.miː.nos/ → /ˈka.mi.nos/ → /ˈka.mi.nos/
Noun
κάμῑνος • (kámīnos) f (genitive καμῑ́νου); second declension
- oven, furnace, kiln
- (architecture) flue for warming a room
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Further reading
- “κάμινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάμινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάμινος 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