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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λιμήν (limḗn) + -ιον (-ion)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.mé.ni.on/ → /liˈme.ni.on/ → /liˈme.ni.on/
Noun
λῐμένῐον • (liménion) n (genitive λῐμενίου); second declension
- diminutive of λιμήν (limḗn)
Declension
Descendants
- Ottoman Turkish: لیمان (liman) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- λιμένιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λιμένιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “λιμένιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press