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Ancient Greek
Etymology Likely Pre-Greek κάννα ( kánna , “ reed ” ) .[ 1]
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ka.nɔ̌ːn/ → /kaˈnon/ → /kaˈnon/
Noun κᾰνών • (kanṓn ) m genitive κᾰνόνος third declension
rod , pole , bar rods used in shields
type of rod used in weaving
measuring rod, carpenter's rule , plumb line , level
( music ) monochord something to judge by, rule , norm , general principle
model , paradigm tax assessment , tax , tariff
( music ) qanun
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants Greek: κανόνας ( kanónas )
→ Arabic: قَانُون ( qānūn ) see there for further descendants )→ Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܢܘܢܐ ( qānōnāʾ ) ܟܢܘܢܬܐ ( kənūntāʾ )
→ English: kanon → Georgian: კანონი ( ḳanoni ) → Hebrew: קָנוֹן ( qānôn ) → Latin: canōn see there for further descendants )→ Old Armenian: կանոն ( kanon ) → Romanian: canon → Russian: кану́н ( kanún ) , кано́н ( kanón )
References
Further reading “κανών Liddell & Scott (1940 ) A Greek–English Lexicon
“κανών Liddell & Scott (1889 ) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon , New York: Harper & Brothers
“κανών Autenrieth, Georg (1891 ) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges , New York: Harper and Brothers
κανών Bailly, Anatole (1935 ) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français Bauer, Walter et al. (2001 ) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature κανών Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924 ) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition , Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963 G2583 in Strong, James (1979 ) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible Woodhouse, S. C. (1910 ) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language carpenter idem, page 114.criterion idem, page 184.measure idem, page 520.measuring rod idem, page 521.plumb-line idem, page 621.plummet idem, page 622.principle idem, page 641.rod idem, page 720.rule idem, page 725.standard idem, page 810.test idem, page 863.yard-measure idem, page 995.