στένω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten- (“groan”), compare Sanskrit स्तनति (stanati, “to drone, thunder”), Old Lithuanian stenti, Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, groan”). Latin tono, Sanskrit तन्यति (tanyati), Old English þunian, Proto-Germanic *þunraz and Aeolic τέννει (a riming word or an old s-less byform[1]) point to *ten(h₂)-. [2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sté.nɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈste.no/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈste.no/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈste.no/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈste.no/
Verb
- to moan, groan
- to lament
References
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1960–1972), “στένω”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “στενός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1399
- “στένω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στένω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- στένω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette