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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μείς (meís, “month; moon”) + -ῐ́σκος (-ískos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛː.nís.kos/ → /miˈnis.kos/ → /miˈnis.kos/
Noun
μηνῐ́σκος • (mēnískos) m (genitive μηνῐ́σκου); second declension
- crescent
- head covering for statues
- neck-ornament
- crescent-shaped line of battle
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μηνίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μηνίσκος 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