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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Schwyzer compared Sanskrit सनर (sanara), of uncertain meaning. Connection with Sanskrit सनोति (sanoti, “to win”) would impart this word the original meaning "gain, booty"; one would have to accept psilosis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.na.ra/ → /ˈe.na.ra/ → /ˈe.na.ra/
Noun
ἔνᾰρα • (énara) n pl (genitive ἐνᾰ́ρων); second declension
- spoils, weapons and trappings of a slain foe
- (in general) spoil, booty
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Further reading
- “ἔναρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔναρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἔναρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἔναρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔναρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἔναρα 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