Ancient Greek

Noun

ἔμβρυον • ‎(émbruon) n ‎(genitive ἐμβρύου); second declension

1. a young one
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.245
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.309
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.342
   • Aristotle, Parts of Animals 3.15.2
2. embryo, fetus
   • Aeschylus, The Eumenides 945, (Compare Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1255, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 6.22.18)

Inflection

Descendants

• English: embryo-
• Greek: έμβρυο ‎(émvryo)
• Latin: embryo, embryon

References

• ἔμβρυον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔμβρυον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔμβρυον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἔμβρυον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἔμβρυον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἔμβρυον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)