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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- (“corner, hirn”), same source as ἄγκος (ánkos, “glen, dell”), ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”) and ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “curved, bent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aŋ.kɔ̌ːn/ → /aŋˈɡon/ → /aŋˈɡon/
Noun
ἀγκών • (ankṓn) m (genitive ἀγκῶνος); third declension
- (anatomy) bend of the arm, hence elbow
- Synonym: ὠλένη (ōlénē)
- nook, corner, angle of the wall
- bend or meander of a river
- headlands which form a bay
- ribs which support the horns of the cithara
- kind of vase
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Further reading
- “ἀγκών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀγκών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀγκών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγκών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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