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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τρῡ́ω (trū́ō, “to wear down, exhaust”) + -ᾰ́νη (-ánē, instrumental nominal suffix); it probably refers to the opening in which the tongue moves.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tryː.tá.nɛː/ → /tryˈta.ni/ → /triˈta.ni/
Noun
τρῡτᾰ́νη • (trūtánē) f (genitive τρῡτᾰ́νης); first declension
- balance, pair of scales
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Further reading
- “τρυτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τρυτάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τρυτάνη 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