λύκος
See also: Λύκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”). Cognates include Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka), Latin lupus, Old English wulf (English wolf) and Russian волк (volk).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.kos/
Noun
λῠ́κος • (lúkos) m (genitive λῠ́κου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λῠ́κος ho lúkos |
τὼ λῠ́κω tṑ lúkō |
οἱ λῠ́κοι hoi lúkoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῠ́κου toû lúkou |
τοῖν λῠ́κοιν toîn lúkoin |
τῶν λῠ́κων tôn lúkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῠ́κῳ tôi lúkōi |
τοῖν λῠ́κοιν toîn lúkoin |
τοῖς λῠ́κοις toîs lúkois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λῠ́κον tòn lúkon |
τὼ λῠ́κω tṑ lúkō |
τοὺς λῠ́κους toùs lúkous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠ́κε lúke |
λῠ́κω lúkō |
λῠ́κοι lúkoi | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
λυκ-
- λύκαινα (lúkaina)
- λυκόφως (lukóphōs)
- λυκαυγές (lukaugés)
- λυκανθρωπία (lukanthrōpía)
- λυκίσκος (lukískos)
- λυκόπουλο (lukópoulo)
- λυκόσκυλο (lukóskulo)
- λυκόστομα (lukóstoma)
- λυκοφιλία (lukophilía)
- λυκοφωλιά (lukophōliá)
Descendants
- Greek: λύκος (lýkos)
References
- λύκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λύκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λύκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λύκος 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
- λύκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- λύκος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3074 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- λύκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λύκος (lúkos), from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (“wolf”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liko̞s/
- Hyphenation: λύ‧κος
Noun
λύκος • (lýkos) m (plural λύκοι, feminine λύκαινα)
- wolf
- wolfdog
- aggressive and bloodthirsty person
- (medicine) lupus
- cock of old hunting gun
Declension
Related terms
- λυκάκι n (lykáki, “wolf cub”)
- στο στόμα του λύκου (sto stóma tou lýkou, “into lion's den”)
- ο λύκος κι αν εγέρασε κι άσπρισε το μαλλί του, μήτε τη γνώμη άλλαξε, μήτε την κεφαλή του (o lýkos ki an egérase ki ásprise to mallí tou, míte ti gnómi állaxe, míte tin kefalí tou, “a leopard cannot change its spots”)
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