ξόανον

From ξύω (xúō, “to carve, smooth”). Compare ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”).

ξόᾰνον • (xóanon) n (genitive ξοᾰ́νου); second declension

1. an image of carved wood, an image, statue, especially of a god; xoanon
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.12
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1403
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1359
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 525
   • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 1074
   • Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.17.2
2. a musical instrument
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 238

• English: xoanon
• Greek: ξόανο (xóano)

• “ξόανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ξόανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ξόανον 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.
  • image idem, page 416.
  • statue idem, page 813.