λίμνη

From or closely related to λιμήν (limḗn, “harbor”) and λειμών (leimṓn, “moist place, meadow”).^[1]

λῐ́μνη • (lĭ́mnē) f (genitive λῐ́μνης); first declension

1. lake, marsh, basin
2. sea

• λίμνιον (límnion)

• → English: limno-
• Greek: λίμνη (límni)

• “λίμνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λίμνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λίμνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λίμνη 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
• λίμνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3041 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• λίμνη 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.
  • alban (lake) idem, page 22.
  • azov idem, page 57.
  • bog idem, page 87.
  • copais idem, page 173.
  • fen idem, page 315.
  • lake idem, page 474.
  • marsh idem, page 515.
  • mere idem, page 525.
  • moeris (lake) idem, page 538.
  • sheet idem, page 764.
  • stymphalian lake idem, page 830.
  • swamp idem, page 846.

• λιμήν (limḗn)

Inherited from Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē).

λίμνη • (límni) f (plural λίμνες)

1. lake

• λιμνούλα f (limnoúla, “pond or small lake”)