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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of θρᾶνος (thrânos, “bench”) and θρόνος (thrónos, “throne”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰrɛ̂ː.nys/ → /ˈθri.nys/ → /ˈθri.nis/
Noun
θρῆνῠς • (thrênŭs) m (genitive θρήνῠος); third declension
- footstool
- Synonyms: σφέλας (sphélas), ὑποπόδιον (hupopódion)
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References
- “θρῆνυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θρῆνυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “θρῆνυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- θρῆνυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- θρῆνυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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