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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἀρήν (arḗn, “lamb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.neː.ós/ → /ar.niˈos/ → /ar.niˈos/
Noun
ἀρνειός • (arneiós) m (genitive ἀρνειοῦ); second declension
- ram, wether
- Synonym: κρῑός (krīós)
- (Byzantine) lamb
- Synonyms: ἀμνός (amnós), ἀρνίον (arníon)
Declension
Further reading
- “ἀρνειός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀρνειός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀρνειός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἀρνειός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἀρνειός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “ἀρνειός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press