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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Perhaps a technical term of the Pre-Greek substrate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛː.nós/ → /liˈnos/ → /liˈnos/
Noun
ληνός • (lēnós) f (genitive ληνοῦ); second declension
- anything shaped like a tub or trough
- winepress, vat where grapes are pressed
- trough, for watering cattle
- socket into which the mast fitted
- coffin, sarcophagus
- (anatomy) torcular Herophili, the confluence of sinuses
- lower parts of the nose
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ληνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ληνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ληνός 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