τέρην

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *ter- (soft, tender, young), the same root of Latin tener (soft, tender).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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τέρην (térēnm (feminine τέρεινᾰ, neuter τέρεν); first/third declension (Homeric)

  1. (Homeric) soft, delicate, gentle

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • τέρην”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • τέρην”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • τέρην”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τέρην in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • τέρην in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • τέρην”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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