λευκός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Latin lūx, Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Old Armenian լոյս (loys) and Old English lēoht (noun), whence English light.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /leu̯.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /leʍˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /leɸˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lefˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /lefˈkos/
Adjective
λευκός • (leukós) m (feminine λευκή, neuter λευκόν); first/second declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | λευκός leukós |
λευκή leukḗ |
λευκόν leukón |
λευκώ leukṓ |
λευκᾱ́ leukā́ |
λευκώ leukṓ |
λευκοί leukoí |
λευκαί leukaí |
λευκᾰ́ leuká | |||||
| Genitive | λευκοῦ leukoû |
λευκῆς leukês |
λευκοῦ leukoû |
λευκοῖν leukoîn |
λευκαῖν leukaîn |
λευκοῖν leukoîn |
λευκῶν leukôn |
λευκῶν leukôn |
λευκῶν leukôn | |||||
| Dative | λευκῷ leukôi |
λευκῇ leukêi |
λευκῷ leukôi |
λευκοῖν leukoîn |
λευκαῖν leukaîn |
λευκοῖν leukoîn |
λευκοῖς leukoîs |
λευκαῖς leukaîs |
λευκοῖς leukoîs | |||||
| Accusative | λευκόν leukón |
λευκήν leukḗn |
λευκόν leukón |
λευκώ leukṓ |
λευκᾱ́ leukā́ |
λευκώ leukṓ |
λευκούς leukoús |
λευκᾱ́ς leukā́s |
λευκᾰ́ leuká | |||||
| Vocative | λευκέ leuké |
λευκή leukḗ |
λευκόν leukón |
λευκώ leukṓ |
λευκᾱ́ leukā́ |
λευκώ leukṓ |
λευκοί leukoí |
λευκαί leukaí |
λευκᾰ́ leuká | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| λευκῶς leukôs |
λευκότερος leukóteros |
λευκότᾰτος leukótatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | |||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (gleaming): γλαυκός (glaukós)
Antonyms
- (light in color): μέλᾱς (mélās)
Derived terms
- λευκομέλᾱς (leukomélās)
- λεῦκος (leûkos)
- Λεῦκος (Leûkos)
- λευκότης (leukótēs)
- λευκόχροος (leukókhroos)
- λευκόω (leukóō)
Descendants
- English: leucodermic, leukemia
- Alicante or Alacant (Al-Laqant, Lucentum, Leukante, [Akra] Leuka, [Akra] Leuké)
Further reading
- λευκός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λευκός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λευκός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λευκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- λευκός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- λευκός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3022 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).
Adjective
λευκός • (lefkós) m (feminine λευκή, neuter λευκό)
- (literary) white
- Ο Λευκός Οίκος βρίσκεται στην 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- O Lefkós Oíkos vrísketai stin 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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- blank, clean
- λευκό ποινικό μητρώο ― lefkó poinikó mitróo ― a clean criminal record
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Declension
positive forms of λευκός
| number case / gender |
singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | λευκός | λευκή | λευκό | λευκοί | λευκές | λευκά |
| genitive | λευκού | λευκής | λευκού | λευκών | λευκών | λευκών |
| accusative | λευκό | λευκή | λευκό | λευκούς | λευκές | λευκά |
| vocative | λευκέ | λευκή | λευκό | λευκοί | λευκές | λευκά |
| derivations | comparative: πιο (pio) + positive forms (e.g. πιο λευκός, etc.) relative superlative: definite article + πιο (pio) + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο λευκός (o pio lefkós), etc.) | |||||
degrees of comparison by suffixation
| comparative | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | λευκότερος | λευκότερη | λευκότερο | λευκότεροι | λευκότερες | λευκότερα |
| genitive | λευκότερου | λευκότερης | λευκότερου | λευκότερων | λευκότερων | λευκότερων |
| accusative | λευκότερο | λευκότερη | λευκότερο | λευκότερους | λευκότερες | λευκότερα |
| vocative | λευκότερε | λευκότερη | λευκότερο | λευκότεροι | λευκότερες | λευκότερα |
| derivations | relative superlative: ο + comparative forms (eg "ο λευκότερος", etc) | |||||
| absolute superlative | singular | plural | ||||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | λευκότατος | λευκότατη | λευκότατο | λευκότατοι | λευκότατες | λευκότατα |
| genitive | λευκότατου | λευκότατης | λευκότατου | λευκότατων | λευκότατων | λευκότατων |
| accusative | λευκότατο | λευκότατη | λευκότατο | λευκότατους | λευκότατες | λευκότατα |
| vocative | λευκότατε | λευκότατη | λευκότατο | λευκότατοι | λευκότατες | λευκότατα |
Synonyms
- άσπρος (áspros) (non-literary term)
Derived terms
Terms derived from λευκός (lefkós)
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