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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from a substrate language. Said to come from the same origin of ἀναπίνω (anapínō, “to absorb, suck up, drink in”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up to, thoroughly”) + πίνω (pínō, “I drink, giggle, swallow, absorb”), meaning "The one who swallows", due to the fact that its river path disappears underground to reappear further on several times; also compared with the opposite Ancient Greek ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō). Cfr. Ancient Greek Αἴσηπος (Aísēpos) for a similar morphology.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.naː.pos/ → /ˈa.na.pos/ → /ˈa.na.pos/
Proper noun
Ἄνᾱπος • (Ánāpos) m (genitive Ἄνᾱ́που); second declension
- It was a river in ancient Acarnania, tributary of the Achelous River, which it joined eighty stadia south of Stratus.
- One of the most considerable rivers in Sicily, which flows into the great harbour of Syracusae, now the river Anapo.
- (Greek mythology) Anapus, a water god of eastern Sicily. He opposed the kidnapping of Persephone along with the nymph Cyane, then Hades turned them into a river (the river Anapo) and a fountain, respectively.
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