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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, undoubtedly of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʰîː.nos/ → /ˈsçi.nos/ → /ˈsçi.nos/
Noun
σχῖνος • (skhînos) f (genitive σχῑ́νου); second declension
- lentisk (Pistacia lentiscus)
Inflection
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “σχῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σχῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σχῖνος 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