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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From στείνω (steínō, “to straiten, confine”) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stêː.nos/ → /ˈsti.nos/ → /ˈsti.nos/
Noun
στεῖνος • (steînos) n (genitive στείνεος); third declension
- narrow, close or confined space
- (figuratively) straits, distress
Inflection
Further reading
- “στεῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στεῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “στεῖνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- στεῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στεῖνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963