Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
πρῖνος. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
πρῖνος, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
πρῖνος in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
πρῖνος you have here. The definition of the word
πρῖνος will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
πρῖνος, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from a substrate root common to Proto-Slavic *brinъ (“larch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /prîː.nos/ → /ˈpri.nos/ → /ˈpri.nos/
Noun
πρῖνος • (prînos) f (genitive πρῑ́νου); second declension
- holm oak, ilex (Quercus ilex)
- kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “πρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πρῖνος 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
- “πρῖνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011