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ὠλένη

ὠλένη

See also: ωλένη

Ancient Greek

Noun

ὠλένη (ōlénē) f (genitive ὠλένης); first declension

  1. elbow, lower arm
  2. mat, mattress (=Latin torus)

Inflection

References

  • ὠλένη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὠλένη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • «ὠλένη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • arm idem, page 40.
  • 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
  1. Zair, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012), page 23