Leuctra

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Leuctra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Leuctridae – certain stoneflies.

• Leuctrae
• Leuctrum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λεῦκτρα (Leûktra).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛu̯k.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛu̯k.t̪ra]

Leuctra n pl (genitive Leuctrōrum); second declension

1. a small town of Boeotia where Epaminondas defeated the Spartans
2. a small town of Laconia situated on the eastern side of the gulf of Messenia

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, plural only.

• Leuctricus

• “Leuctra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Leuctra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Leuctra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.