λαῖφος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λαίφη (laíphē)
Etymology
Unknown. Furnée unconvincingly compares λαῖφα (laîpha, “shield”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lâi̯.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.fos/
Noun
λαῖφος • (laîphos) n (genitive λαίφεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | λαῖφος laîphos |
λαίφει / λαίφεε laíphei / laíphee |
λαίφεᾰ laípheă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | λαίφεος / λαίφευς laípheos / laípheus |
λαιφέοιν laiphéoin |
λαιφέων laiphéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | λαίφει / λαίφεῐ̈ laíphei / laípheĭ̈ |
λαιφέοιν laiphéoin |
λαίφεσῐ / λαίφεσῐν laíphesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | λαῖφος laîphos |
λαίφει / λαίφεε laíphei / laíphee |
λαίφεᾰ laípheă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λαῖφος laîphos |
λαίφει / λαίφεε laíphei / laíphee |
λαίφεᾰ laípheă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λαῖφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαῖφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λαῖφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λαῖφος 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