στήνιον
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast, nipple”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”) and Old Armenian ստին (stin, “breast”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈste̝.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
Noun[edit]
στήνιον • (stḗnion)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: στῆθος (stêthos, “breast”).
References[edit]
- “στήνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- στήνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ