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Ancient Greek
Etymology
ταμία (tamía, “housekeeper, conductress”) + -εῖον (-eîon, “instrumental noun suffix”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.mi.êː.on/ → /ta.miˈi.on/ → /ta.miˈi.on/
Noun
τᾰμῐεῖον • (tamieîon) n (genitive τᾰμῐείου); second declension
- treasury
- magazine, storehouse
- chamber, closet
Declension
References
Further reading
- ταμιεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ταμιεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ταμιεῖον”, 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.