λῆνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ū́rṇā), Latin lāna, and Old English wull (English wool).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛ̂ː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.nos/
Noun
λῆνος • (lênos) n (genitive λήνους or λήνεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῆνος tò lênos |
τὼ λήνει tṑ lḗnei |
τᾰ̀ λήνη tà lḗnē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λήνους toû lḗnous |
τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn |
τῶν ληνῶν tôn lēnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λήνει tôi lḗnei |
τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn |
τοῖς λήνεσῐ(ν) toîs lḗnesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῆνος tò lênos |
τὼ λήνει tṑ lḗnei |
τᾰ̀ λήνη tà lḗnē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῆνος lênos |
λήνει lḗnei |
λήνη lḗnē | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Further reading
- λῆνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λῆνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῆνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
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