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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πῡρός (pūrós, “grain of wheat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyː.rɛ̌ːn/ → /pyˈrin/ → /piˈrin/
Noun
πῡρήν • (pūrḗn) m (genitive πῡρῆνος); third declension
- (botany) kernel, pip, stone
- hard bone of fishes
- grain of frankincense
- round head of a probe
- name of a gem used as a votive offering
- growth under the chin of an animal
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Further reading
- “πυρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυρήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυρήν 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.