Πυρήνη
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Said by Herodotus and Pliny to be from Celtic.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.rɛ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈre̝.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈri.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈri.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈri.ni/
Proper noun edit
Πῡρήνη • (Pūrḗnē) f (genitive Πῡρήνης); first declension
- the Pyrenees mountains
Inflection edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- Πυρήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette