λίνον

Uncertain. Could be from Proto-Indo-European *linom, with cognates including Old Church Slavonic льнъ (lĭnŭ), Latin līnum, and Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽 (lein). However, the Latin and Germanic forms have a long i. Could also be a loanword to Latin and Ancient Greek which other languages borrowed.

λῐ́νον • (línon) n (genitive λῐ́νου); second declension

1. flax (Linum usitatissimum)
2. anything made of flax:
   1. cord, fishing line, thread
   2. (figuratively) thread of destiny spun by the Fates
   3. fishing net, hunting net
   4. (in the plural) linen cloths or garments
   5. flax for spinning

• “λίνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λίνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λίνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λίνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• λίνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3043 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • canvas idem, page 111.
  • flax idem, page 327.
  • linen idem, page 493.
  • lint idem, page 493.
  • sheet idem, page 764.