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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly a loanword from Egyptian šnḏwt (“kilt”). Compare also Hebrew סָדִין (sadin, “bedsheet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sin.dɔ̌ːn/ → /sinˈdon/ → /sinˈdon/
Noun
σῐνδών • (sindṓn) f (genitive σῐνδόνος); third declension
- fine linen cloth
- garment of linen, muslin
- cloth, sheet, veil made of linen
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Further reading
- “σινδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σινδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σινδών 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