στήνιον

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast, nipple”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”) and Old Armenian ստին (stin, “breast”).

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈste̝.ni.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/

Noun

στήνιον • (stḗnion)

Hesychius' gives the definition as: στῆθος (stêthos, “breast”).

References

“στήνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
στήνιον 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
Hesychius' Lexicon: σ

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