λάθυρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably related to Latin lens (“lentil”) and German Linse.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lá.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/
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Noun
λάθυρος • (láthuros) m (genitive λαθύρου); second declension
- A kind of pulse, chickling vetch
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ λάθυρος; τοῦ λαθύρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λάθυρος ho láthuros | τὼ λαθύρω tṑ lathúrō | οἱ λάθυροι hoi láthuroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λαθύρου toû lathúrou | τοῖν λαθύροιν toîn lathúroin | τῶν λαθύρων tôn lathúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λαθύρῳ tôi lathúrōi | τοῖν λαθύροιν toîn lathúroin | τοῖς λαθύροις toîs lathúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λάθυρον tòn láthuron | τὼ λαθύρω tṑ lathúrō | τοὺς λαθύρους toùs lathúrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λάθυρε láthure | λαθύρω lathúrō | λάθυροι láthuroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λαθυρίς (lathurís)
Descendants
- Latin: lathyros
- Translingual: Lathyrus
Further reading
- λάθυρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λάθυρος 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