στεργάνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Not related to Latin stercus (“dung”) and Welsh trwnc (“urine”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ster.ɡá.nos/ → /sterˈɣa.nos/ → /sterˈɣa.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ster.ɡá.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sterˈɡa.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sterˈɣa.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sterˈɣa.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sterˈɣa.nos/

Noun

στεργάνος • (stergános)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: κοπρών (koprṓn, “place for dung”).

References

• “στεργάνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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