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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kr̥s-neh₂, from *kres- (“spring, fount”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hraznō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /ˈkri.ni/ → /ˈkri.ni/
Noun
κρήνη • (krḗnē) f (genitive κρήνης); first declension
- well, spring, fountain
- Synonyms: κρουνός (krounós), πηγή (pēgḗ), πῖδᾰξ (pîdax)
- (in the plural, poetic) waters
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Further reading
- “κρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κρήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κρήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κρήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.