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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόνις (kónis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.ní.aː/ → /koˈni.a/ → /koˈni.a/
Noun
κονῐ́ᾱ • (koníā) f (genitive κονῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- dust, as stirred up by men's feet
- sand, soil
- (in the plural) ashes
- a fine powder, sprinkled over wrestlers' bodies after being oiled, to make them more easily grasped by the opponent
- powdered lime, plaster, stucco
- any kind of lyes or alkaline carbonates made from ashes and used for washing
Inflection
Descendants
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܢܝܐ (qōnyā)
References
- “κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κονία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.