λειχήν

Ancient Greek

From λείχω (leíkhō, “to lick”), derived with the meaning “the one who licks”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”).

λειχήν • (leikhḗn) m (genitive λειχῆνος); third declension

Liverwort
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 4.53
Lichen-like disease affecting the skin of animals; sycosis
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 281
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 3.20
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Sweat 14
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Leviticus 21.20
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 14.75
- 400 CE – 600 CE, Aëtius, Sixteen Books on Medicine 8.16
Blight or canker of the ground
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 785
Callosity on the foreleg of horses
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.43
- 400 CE – 500 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Chronic Diseases 1.138

Third declension of ὁ λειχήν; τοῦ λειχῆνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λειχήν ho leikhḗn	τὼ λειχῆνε tṑ leikhêne	οἱ λειχῆνες hoi leikhênes
Genitive	τοῦ λειχῆνος toû leikhênos	τοῖν λειχήνοιν toîn leikhḗnoin	τῶν λειχήνων tôn leikhḗnōn
Dative	τῷ λειχῆνῐ tōî leikhênĭ	τοῖν λειχήνοιν toîn leikhḗnoin	τοῖς λειχῆσῐ / λειχῆσῐν toîs leikhêsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν λειχῆνᾰ tòn leikhênă	τὼ λειχῆνε tṑ leikhêne	τοὺς λειχῆνᾰς toùs leikhênăs
Vocative	λειχήν leikhḗn	λειχῆνε leikhêne	λειχῆνες leikhênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“λειχήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λείχω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 846