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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to σπλήν (splḗn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spláŋ.kʰnon/ → /ˈsplaŋ.xnon/ → /ˈsplaŋ.xnon/
Noun
σπλᾰ́γχνον • (splánkhnon) n (genitive σπλᾰ́γχνου); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) bowels, guts, inward part, internal organ
- (figuratively) seat of feelings, heart
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “σπλάγχνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σπλάγχνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σπλάγχνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σπλάγχνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.