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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *húpnos, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós (“sleep”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hý.pnos/ → /ˈy.pnos/ → /ˈi.pnos/
Noun
ῠ̔́πνος • (húpnos) m (genitive ῠ̔́πνου); second declension
- sleep, slumber
- (figuratively) death
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References
Further reading
- “ὕπνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὕπνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὕπνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὕπνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ὕπνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ὕπνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5258 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “ὕπνος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011