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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *stónos (whence also Proto-Slavic *stonъ (“moan, groan”)), from *sten- (“to moan, groan”). By surface analysis, στένω (sténō) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stó.nos/ → /ˈsto.nos/ → /ˈsto.nos/
Noun
στόνος • (stónos) m (genitive στόνου); second declension
- sighing, groaning, lamentation
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Further reading
- “στόνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- στόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στόνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “στόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.