λύχνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *luk-s-nos, from *lewk-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.kʰnos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.kʰnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.xnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.xnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.xnos/
Noun
λῠ́χνος • (lŭ́khnos) m (genitive λῠ́χνου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λῠ́χνος ho lŭ́khnos |
τὼ λῠ́χνω tṑ lŭ́khnō |
οἱ λῠ́χνοι hoi lŭ́khnoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῠ́χνου toû lŭ́khnou |
τοῖν λῠ́χνοιν toîn lŭ́khnoin |
τῶν λῠ́χνων tôn lŭ́khnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῠ́χνῳ tōî lŭ́khnōi |
τοῖν λῠ́χνοιν toîn lŭ́khnoin |
τοῖς λῠ́χνοις toîs lŭ́khnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λῠ́χνον tòn lŭ́khnon |
τὼ λῠ́χνω tṑ lŭ́khnō |
τοὺς λῠ́χνους toùs lŭ́khnous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠ́χνε lŭ́khne |
λῠ́χνω lŭ́khnō |
λῠ́χνοι lŭ́khnoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λύχνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λύχνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λύχνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3088 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λῠ́χνος (lŭ́khnos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli.xnos/
Noun
λύχνος • (lýchnos) m (plural λύχνοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | λύχνος (lýchnos) | λύχνοι (lýchnoi) |
| genitive | λύχνου (lýchnou) | λύχνων (lýchnon) |
| accusative | λύχνο (lýchno) | λύχνους (lýchnous) |
| vocative | λύχνε (lýchne) | λύχνοι (lýchnoi) |
Derived terms
- λυχνάρι n (lychnári, “oil or fat lamp”)
References
- λύχνος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language