σθένος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps root-cognate with Old English stīþ (hard, cruel, violent) (English stith (stiff, hard)), or with Proto-Germanic *segaz (victory).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σθένος (sthénos) n (genitive σθένεος or σθένους); third declension

  1. strength, might, power

Inflection

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Descendants

References

  1. George Melville Bolling, "The Etymology of ΣΘΕΝΟΣ", The American Journal of Philology 21 (1900), 315f.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σθένος (sthénos).

Noun

σθένος (sthénos) n

  1. moral or emotional strength, might, power
  2. (chemistry) valence, valency
  3. (grammar, linguistics) valency (number of grammatical arguments a verb can take)

Declension

Further reading

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