λεοντική
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of λεοντῐκός (leontĭkós, “of a lion”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /le.on.ti.kɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /le.on.tiˈke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /le.on.tiˈci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /le.on.tiˈci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /le.on.diˈci/
Noun
λεοντῐκή • (leontĭkḗ) f (genitive λεοντῐκῆς); first declension
- kind of mercury (Mercurialis tomentosa)
- Synonym: κᾰκκᾰλῐ́ᾱ (kăkkălĭ́ā)
- sort of dye
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λεοντῐκή hē leontĭkḗ |
τὼ λεοντῐκᾱ́ tṑ leontĭkā́ |
αἱ λεοντῐκαί hai leontĭkaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λεοντῐκῆς tês leontĭkês |
τοῖν λεοντῐκαῖν toîn leontĭkaîn |
τῶν λεοντῐκῶν tôn leontĭkôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λεοντῐκῇ tēî leontĭkēî |
τοῖν λεοντῐκαῖν toîn leontĭkaîn |
ταῖς λεοντῐκαῖς taîs leontĭkaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λεοντῐκήν tḕn leontĭkḗn |
τὼ λεοντῐκᾱ́ tṑ leontĭkā́ |
τᾱ̀ς λεοντῐκᾱ́ς tā̀s leontĭkā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λεοντῐκή leontĭkḗ |
λεοντῐκᾱ́ leontĭkā́ |
λεοντῐκαί leontĭkaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Leontice
Further reading
- “λεοντική”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λεοντική in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette