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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From earlier *πάκσνά (páksná), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, like πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “I fasten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pá.kʰnɛː/ → /ˈpa.xni/ → /ˈpa.xni/
Noun
πάχνη • (pákhnē) f (genitive πάχνης); first declension
- hoarfrost, rime
- Synonym: στίβη (stíbē)
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Descendants
References
- “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πάχνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πάχνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “πάχνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Ancient Greek πάχνη (pákhnē)
Pronunciation
Noun
πάχνη • (páchni) f (uncountable)
- rime, hoarfrost
Declension
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genitive
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vocative
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