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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *luk-s-nos, from *lewk-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lý.kʰnos/ → /ˈly.xnos/ → /ˈli.xnos/
Noun
λῠ́χνος • (lúkhnos) m (genitive λῠ́χνου); second declension
- lamp
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λύχνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λύχνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λύχνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3088 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.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λῠ́χνος (lúkhnos).
Pronunciation
Noun
λύχνος • (lýchnos) m (plural λύχνοι)
- oil lamp
Declension
Derived terms
- λυχνάρι n (lychnári, “oil or fat lamp”)
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