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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate to Sanskrit ध्रणति (dhráṇati, “to sound”), Latin drēnsō, and Old English drān (English drone). Compare also θρέομαι (thréomai, “I cry aloud, shriek”). Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰrɛ̂ː.nos/ → /ˈθri.nos/ → /ˈθri.nos/
Noun
θρῆνος • (thrênos) m (genitive θρήνου); second declension
- wailing, lamenting, dirge
- Synonym: ἰάλεμος (iálemos)
- complaint
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: θρήνος m (thrínos, “lamentation”)
References
- “θρῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θρῆνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θρῆνος 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
- θρῆνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “θρῆνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2355 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- θρῆνος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.