λάσθη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with Latin lascīvus (“wanton, lusty”) is inadequate. Perhaps from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lás.tʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlas.tʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlas.θi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlas.θi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlas.θi/
Noun
λάσθη • (lásthē) f (genitive λάσθης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λάσθη hē lásthē |
τὼ λάσθᾱ tṑ lásthā |
αἱ λάσθαι hai lásthai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λάσθης tês lásthēs |
τοῖν λάσθαιν toîn lásthain |
τῶν λασθῶν tôn lasthôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λάσθῃ tēî lásthēi |
τοῖν λάσθαιν toîn lásthain |
ταῖς λάσθαις taîs lásthais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λάσθην tḕn lásthēn |
τὼ λάσθᾱ tṑ lásthā |
τᾱ̀ς λάσθᾱς tā̀s lásthās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λάσθη lásthē |
λάσθᾱ lásthā |
λάσθαι lásthai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λάσθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λάσθη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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, →ISBN