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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology of this word is unexplained.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sǎu̯.ni.on/ → /ˈsa.βni.on/ → /ˈsa.vni.on/
Noun
σαύνῐον • (saúnion) n (genitive σαυνῐ́ου); second declension
- javelin
- Synonym: ἀκόντιον (akóntion)
- (figuratively) membrum virile
- Samnites
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “σαύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σαύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σαύνιον 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
- Stuart-Smith, Jane, 2004, Phonetics and Philologyz: Sound Change in Italic, OUP Oxford