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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πέφνος (Péphnos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pephnus m sg (genitive Pephnī); second declension
- A town of Laconia, on the eastern coast of the gulf of Messenia
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Pephnus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly