πνοή

• πνοιή (pnoiḗ) — Epic
• πνοᾱ́ (pnoā́) — Doric
• πνοιᾱ́ (pnoiā́) — Lyric

From πνέω (pnéō) +‎ -η (-ē).

πνοή • (pnoḗ) f (genitive πνοῆς); first declension

1. breath

• ἄπνοος (ápnoos)

• “πνοή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πνοή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πνοιή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πνοή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πνοή”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • air idem, page 21.
  • blast idem, page 82.
  • breath idem, page 96.
  • breeze idem, page 97.
  • draught idem, page 250.
  • exhalation idem, page 291.
  • gust idem, page 379.
  • wind idem, page 980.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πνοή (pnoḗ) with semantic loan from French haleine in the figurative 'impetus' sense.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pnoˈi/
• Hyphenation: πνο‧ή

πνοή • (pnoḯ) f (plural πνοές)

1. breath, waft, whiff (small amount of wind; a light gust of air)

   Near-synonym: φύσημα n (fýsima)

2. (in set expressions) breath (a single act of breathing in or out; a breathing of air)

   Synonyms: ανάσα f (anása), αναπνοή f (anapnoḯ)

   μέχρι την τελευταία του πνοή ― méchri tin teleftaía tou pnoḯ ― until his last breath

3. (figuratively) impetus

   δίνω πνοή σε (idiomatic) ― díno pnoḯ se ― to breathe life into, to give impetus to

   δίνω νέα πνοή σε (idiomatic) ― díno néa pnoḯ se ― to breathe new life into, to give fresh impetus to