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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is common to other technical terms like δοκίς (dokís, “beam”), ἀρίς (arís, “bow-drill”) and σελίς (selís, “crossbeam”) but the origin is uncertain. According to Beekes, the connection with σαίνω (saínō, “to fawn”) should be rejected for semantic reasons.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.nís/ → /saˈnis/ → /saˈnis/
Noun
σᾰνίς • (sanís) f (genitive σᾰνίδος); third declension
- board, plank, timber
- (in the plural) folding doors
- wooden platform, scaffold or stage
- ship's deck
- bench, seat
- lid of box
- (in the plural) wooden tablets for writing on
- plank to which offenders were bound or nailed
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Further reading
- “σανίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σανίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σανίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σανίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σανίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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