Etymology

Connected with Sanskrit एनस् (énas, “evil, calamity, atrocity”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ΑΙΝΟΣ by Pokorny.

Pronunciation

Adjective

αἰνός • (ainós) m (feminine αἰνή, neuter αἰνόν)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΑΙΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek adjectives#ΑΙΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek oxytone terms#ΑΙΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΑΙΝΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΑΙΝΟΣCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΑΙΝΟΣ; first/second declension

1. horrible, dread, dreadful

Further reading

• “αἰνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αἰνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αἰνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἰνός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• 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