λέκιθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Because of the suffix and the meaning, the word is clearly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.ki.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.ki.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.ci.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.ci.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.ci.θos/
Noun
λέκῐθος • (lékithos) m or f (genitive λεκῐ́θου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ λέκῐθος ho, hē lékithos |
τὼ λεκῐ́θω tṑ lekíthō |
οἱ, αἱ λέκῐθοι hoi, hai lékithoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς λεκῐ́θου toû, tês lekíthou |
τοῖν λεκῐ́θοιν toîn lekíthoin |
τῶν λεκῐ́θων tôn lekíthōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ λεκῐ́θῳ tôi, têi lekíthōi |
τοῖν λεκῐ́θοιν toîn lekíthoin |
τοῖς, ταῖς λεκῐ́θοις toîs, taîs lekíthois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν λέκῐθον tòn, tḕn lékithon |
τὼ λεκῐ́θω tṑ lekíthō |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λεκῐ́θους toùs, tā̀s lekíthous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λέκῐθε lékithe |
λεκῐ́θω lekíthō |
λέκῐθοι lékithoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λεκῐ́θῐον (lekíthion)
- λεκῐθῑ́της (lekithī́tēs)
- λεκῐθοειδής (lekithoeidḗs)
- λεκῐθοπώλης (lekithopṓlēs)
- λεκῐθώδης (lekithṓdēs)
Descendants
- →⇒ French: lécithine (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “λέκιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέκιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέκιθος 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
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