λῆδον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Backformation from λήδανον (lḗdanon, “labdanum”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛ̂ː.don/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle̝.don/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðon/
Noun
λῆδον • (lêdon) n (genitive λήδου); second declension
- gum rockrose (Cistus ladanifer), a shrub from which labdanum exudes
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῆδον tò lêdon |
τὼ λήδω tṑ lḗdō |
τᾰ̀ λῆδᾰ tằ lêdă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λήδου toû lḗdou |
τοῖν λήδοιν toîn lḗdoin |
τῶν λήδων tôn lḗdōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λήδῳ tōî lḗdōi |
τοῖν λήδοιν toîn lḗdoin |
τοῖς λήδοις toîs lḗdois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῆδον tò lêdon |
τὼ λήδω tṑ lḗdō |
τᾰ̀ λῆδᾰ tằ lêdă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῆδον lêdon |
λήδω lḗdō |
λῆδᾰ lêdă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λῆδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λῆδον 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