Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ϝᾰρήν ‎(warḗn) Cretan

Noun

ᾰ̓ρήν • ‎(arḗn) m, f ‎(genitive ᾰ̓ρνός); third declension

1. a lamb
2. a sheep, whether ram or ewe
3. (in the plural) shunted ears of wheat

Inflection

The nominative is only found in early inscriptions, the inflected forms being used in later Greek for ἀμνός ‎(amnós).

Related terms

• ἀρνακίς ‎(arnakís)
• ἄρνειος ‎(árneios)
• ἀρνειός ‎(arneiós)
• ἀρνίον ‎(arníon)
• πολύρρην ‎(polúrrhēn)
• ῥήν ‎(rhḗn)

References

• ἀρήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρήν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀρήν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀρήν» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G704”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀρήν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 129