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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πύρνος (púrnos, “morsel; one-seeded cereal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pýr.non/ → /ˈpyr.non/ → /ˈpir.non/
Noun
πῠ́ρνον • (púrnon) n (genitive πῠ́ρνου); second declension
- wheaten bread, especially the one with bran on it
- (in general) food, meat
Inflection
Further reading
- “πύρνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πύρνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πύρνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πύρνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πύρνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963