ἄφνω
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἄφνως (áphnōs)
Etymology
Related to αἴφνης (aíphnēs, “suddenly”); possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷʰ-, shared with Sanskrit अह्नाय (ahnāya, “instantly, at once”)).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.pʰnɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.pʰno/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɸno/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.fno/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.fno/
Further reading
- ἄφνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄφνω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄφνω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ἄφνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G869 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- suddenly idem, page 835.
- unexpectedly idem, page 917.
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