λάθυρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Traditionally compared to similar words for "lentil", like Latin lens, Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) and German Linse. According to Beekes, the structure (suffix -υρ-) could point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lǎː.tʰy.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈla.tʰy.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.θy.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.θy.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.θi.ros/
Noun
λᾱ́θῠρος • (lā́thuros) m (genitive λᾱθῠ́ρου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λᾱ́θῠρος ho lā́thuros |
τὼ λᾱθῠ́ρω tṑ lāthúrō |
οἱ λᾱ́θῠροι hoi lā́thuroi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λᾱθῠ́ρου toû lāthúrou |
τοῖν λᾱθῠ́ροιν toîn lāthúroin |
τῶν λᾱθῠ́ρων tôn lāthúrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λᾱθῠ́ρῳ tôi lāthúrōi |
τοῖν λᾱθῠ́ροιν toîn lāthúroin |
τοῖς λᾱθῠ́ροις toîs lāthúrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λᾱ́θῠρον tòn lā́thuron |
τὼ λᾱθῠ́ρω tṑ lāthúrō |
τοὺς λᾱθῠ́ρους toùs lāthúrous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λᾱ́θῠρε lā́thure |
λᾱθῠ́ρω lāthúrō |
λᾱ́θῠροι lā́thuroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λᾱθῠρῐ́ς (lāthurís)
Further reading
- “λάθυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λάθυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λάθυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λᾱ́θυρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 822
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