στήνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“breast, nipple”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *spenô (“nipple”) and Old Armenian ստին (stin, “breast”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/ → /ˈsti.ni.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈste̝.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.ni.on/

Noun

στήνιον • (stḗnion)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: στῆθος (stêthos, “breast”).

References

• “στήνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• στήνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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