σορωνίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of σαρωνίς (sarōnís, “old hollow oak”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /so.roˈnis/ → /so.roˈnis/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /so.roˈnis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /so.roˈnis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /so.roˈnis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /so.roˈnis/

Noun

σορωνίς • (sorōnís)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἐλάτη παλαιά (elátē palaiá, literally “old fir”).

Further reading

• “σορωνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σαρωνίς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1310
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ