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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *dem-, the same root of δέμω (démō, “to build”) and δόμος (dómos, “house, dwelling”). The word has also been connected to κρήδεμνον (krḗdemnon, “headband”), suggesting a derivation from the same root of δέω (déō, “to bind”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dém.ni.on/ → /ˈðem.ni.on/ → /ˈðem.ni.on/
Noun
δέμνῐον • (démnion) n (genitive δεμνῐ́ου); second declension
- (mostly in plural) bedstead, cot, bedframe
- Synonym: χαμεύνη (khameúnē)
- (in general) bed
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Further reading
- “δέμνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δέμνιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δέμνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δέμνιον 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