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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἔχις (ékhis, “snake”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.kʰi.dna/ → /ˈe.çi.ðna/ → /ˈe.çi.ðna/
Noun
ἔχιδνᾰ • (ékhidna) f (genitive ἐχίδνης); first declension
- snake (traditionally held as a poisonous snake, viper, but perhaps also a constrictor)
- (figuratively) a treacherous person
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἔχιδνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔχιδνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔχιδνα 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
- G2191 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.