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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From παγκρατής (pankratḗs, “all powerful”) + -ιον (-ion), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paŋ.krá.ti.on/ → /paŋˈɡra.ti.on/ → /paŋˈɡra.ti.on/
Noun
πᾰγκρᾰ́τῐον • (pănkrắtĭon) n (genitive πᾰγκρᾰτῐ́ου); second declension
- pankration, a complete contest, an exercise of the Greek youths which combined both wrestling and boxing
- sea onion (Drimia maritima)
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Further reading
- “παγκράτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “παγκράτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- παγκράτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “παγκράτιον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- παγκράτιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften