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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nâː.nos/ → /ˈna.nos/ → /ˈna.nos/
Noun
νᾶνος • (nânos) m (genitive νᾱ́νου); second declension
- dwarf
Inflection
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νᾶνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 995
Further reading
- “νᾶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νᾶνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νᾶνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.