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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A culture word of foreign (substrate) origin. According to Lewy, it is from Hebrew אֵטוּן (ʾēṭūn, “fine linen”), itself from Egyptian jdmj (“fine red linen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.tʰó.nɛː/ → /oˈθo.ni/ → /oˈθo.ni/
Noun
ὀθόνη • (othónē) f (genitive ὀθόνης); first declension
- fine linen cloth
- sailcloth, sail
- (in the plural) (anatomy) membranes that enclose the pupil of the eye
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Further reading
- “ὀθόνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀθόνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὀθόνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀθόνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀθόνη 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