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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *wlḗnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ū́rṇā), Latin lāna, Old English wull (whence English wool).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ̂ː.nos/ → /ˈli.nos/ → /ˈli.nos/
Noun
λῆνος • (lênos) n (genitive λήνους or λήνεος); third declension
- wool
- (in the plural) fleece
Inflection
Further reading
- “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῆνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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