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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Likely of Pre-Greek origin, based on the interchange π/β observed between the word and its variant βυτίνη (butínē), as well as the presence of the often pre-Greek suffix -ῑn-.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyː.tǐː.nɛː/ → /pyˈti.ni/ → /piˈti.ni/
Noun
πῡτῑ́νη • (pūtī́nē) f (genitive πῡτῑ́νης); first declension
- a flagon, flask
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πυτίνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1264
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βυτίνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 250
Further reading
- “πυτίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυτίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυτίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πυτίνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011