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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *koryos, from *ker-. Direct cognate with Old Norse Herjann, from the same root as Old English here, Middle Irish cuire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǒi̯.ra.nos/ → /ˈcy.ra.nos/ → /ˈci.ra.nos/
Noun
κοίρᾰνος • (koíranos) m (genitive κοιρᾰ́νου); second declension
- king, ruler, leader, commander
- lord, master
Inflection
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References
- “κοίρανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κοίρανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κοίρανος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κοίρανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κοίρανος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κοίρανος”, 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.