Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάννη ‎(kánnē)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kán̚na/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kán̚na/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kána/

Noun

κάννα • ‎(kánna) f ‎(genitive κάννας); first declension

1. giant reed, Arundo donax
2. reed mat

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: canna
  • Italian: canna

References

• κάννα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάννα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κάννα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κάννα» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 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