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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Sanskrit चन्दन (candana), probably via a Middle Indo-Aryan form such as Gandhari 𐨕𐨎𐨡𐨣𐨎 (caṃdanaṃ).
Pronunciation
Noun
σάνδανον • (sándanon) n (genitive σανδάνου); second declension
- (Byzantine) Indian sandalwood, Santalum album
Declension
Further reading
- “σάνδανον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- σάνδαλον 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
- “σάνδανον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press