λάχος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *lengʰ- (“to obtain”), the same root of λαγχάνω (lankhánō, “to obtain by lot”) and λόγχη (lónkhē, “share”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.kʰos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kʰos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.xos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.xos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.xos/

Noun

λᾰ́χος • (lắkhos) n (genitive λᾰ́χεος); third declension

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ λᾰ́χος; τοῦ λᾰ́χεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λᾰ́χος tò lắkhos	τὼ λᾰ́χεε tṑ lắkhee	τᾰ̀ λᾰ́χεᾰ tằ lắkheă
Genitive	τοῦ λᾰ́χεος toû lắkheos	τοῖν λᾰχέοιν toîn lăkhéoin	τῶν λᾰχέων tôn lăkhéōn
Dative	τῷ λᾰ́χεῐ̈ tōî lắkheĭ̈	τοῖν λᾰχέοιν toîn lăkhéoin	τοῖς λᾰ́χεσῐ / λᾰ́χεσῐν toîs lắkhesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ λᾰ́χος tò lắkhos	τὼ λᾰ́χεε tṑ lắkhee	τᾰ̀ λᾰ́χεᾰ tằ lắkheă
Vocative	λᾰ́χος lắkhos	λᾰ́χεε lắkhee	λᾰ́χεᾰ lắkheă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

“λάχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
λάχος 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