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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The ending -ήν is found also in βαλλήν (ballḗn, “king”) and κηφήν (kēphḗn, “drone”): this leads Beekes to think of an Anatolian and Pre-Greek origin. The meaning "king-bee" perhaps arose because of a supposed connection with ἑσμός (hesmós, “swarm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es.sɛ̌ːn/ → /esˈsin/ → /eˈsin/
Noun
ἐσσήν • (essḗn) m (genitive ἐσσῆνος); third declension
- (religion) priest of Artemis of Ephesus
- king, prince, properly "king-bee"
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Further reading
- “ἐσσήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐσσήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐσσήν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 471