Λέσβος

Name said to originally mean 'forested' or 'woody,' possibly a Hittite borrowing, as the original Hittite name for the island was Lazpa.

Λέσβος • (Lésbos) f (genitive Λέσβου); second declension

1. Lesbos

• Λέσβῐος (Lésbĭos)

• English: Lesbos
• Greek: Λέσβος (Lésvos)

• “Λέσβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Λέσβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Λέσβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015

From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlezvos/
• Hyphenation: Λέ‧σβος

Λέσβος • (Lésvos) f

1. Lesbos (third largest island in Greece)

• Μυτιλήνη f (Mytilíni, “Mytilene”)

• Λέσβιος m (Lésvios, “male from Lesbos”)
• Λέσβια f (Lésvia, “female from Lesbos”)
• Λεσβία f (Lesvía, “female from Lesbos”)
• λεσβιακός (lesviakós) (adjective)

• Λέσβος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el