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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Latin lūcānica (“Lucanian sausage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
λουκάνικον • (loukánikon) n (genitive λουκανίκου); second declension
- (Byzantine) lucanica, loukaniko (a type of sausage)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “λουκάνικον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “λουκάνικον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 721