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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The noun has tentatively been linked to other Indo-European words, such as κέραμος (kéramos, “clay, tile”), Sanskrit चरु (caru, “pot, saucepan”), Latin scrīnium (“chest”), Old English hwer (“kettle, pot, basin”), but to no avail. According to Beekes and Chantraine the word is Pre-Greek, in view of the variant κέρχνος (kérkhnos)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kér.nos/ → /ˈcer.nos/ → /ˈcer.nos/
Noun
κέρνος • (kérnos) n (genitive κέρνεος); third declension
- large earthen dish with small pots, in which fruits were offered to the Korybantes
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Further reading
- “κέρνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κέρνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέρνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κέρνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 680