στένω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten- (“groan”), compare Sanskrit स्तनति (stanati, “to drone, thunder”), Old Lithuanian stenti, 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

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sté.nɔː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈste.no/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈste.no/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈste.no/
(15^th 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

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