λέκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Alleged by Beekes to be similar to ἄγγος (ángos, “vessel”) and related to λεκάνη (lekánē, “basin, dish”) and derived from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.kos/
Noun
λέκος • (lékos) n (genitive λέκεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λέκος tò lékos |
τὼ λέκεε tṑ lékee |
τᾰ̀ λέκεᾰ tằ lékeă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λέκεος toû lékeos |
τοῖν λεκέοιν toîn lekéoin |
τῶν λεκέων tôn lekéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λέκεῐ̈ tōî lékeĭ̈ |
τοῖν λεκέοιν toîn lekéoin |
τοῖς λέκεσῐ / λέκεσῐν toîs lékesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λέκος tò lékos |
τὼ λέκεε tṑ lékee |
τᾰ̀ λέκεᾰ tằ lékeă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λέκος lékos |
λέκεε lékee |
λέκεᾰ lékeă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λεκάριον (lekárion)
- λεκίς (lekís)
References
- “λέκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέκος 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