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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath”) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.pno.os/ → /ˈa.pno.os/ → /ˈa.pno.os/
Adjective
ἄπνοος • (ápnoos) m or f (neuter ἄπνοον); second declension
- without wind, with but little air
- unventilated, lacking ventilation
- breathless, gasping
- lifeless, dead
- without breathing or respiration
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Greek: άπνοος (ápnoos) (learned)
Further reading
- ἄπνοος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “ἄπνοος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄπνοος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄπνοος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄπνοος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)