λάκτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Back-formation from λακτίζω (laktízō, “to trample, tread”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lák.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlak.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlak.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlak.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlak.tis/
Noun
λᾰ́κτῐς • (láktis) f (genitive λᾰ́κτῐος); third declension
- pestle
- Synonyms: ἄκμων (ákmōn), ἀλετρίβανος (aletríbanos), δοῖδυξ (doîdux), κόπανον (kópanon), ναγεύς (nageús), ὕπερος (húperos)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ λᾰ́κτῐς; τῆς λᾰ́κτῐος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λᾰ́κτῐς hē láktis | τὼ λᾰ́κτῐε tṑ láktie | αἱ λᾰ́κτῐες hai lákties | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λᾰ́κτῐος tês láktios | τοῖν λᾰκτῐ́οιν toîn laktíoin | τῶν λᾰκτῐ́ων tôn laktíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λᾰ́κτῑ têi láktī | λᾰκτῐ́οιν laktíoin | ταῖς λᾰ́κτῐσῐ / λᾰ́κτῐσῐν taîs láktisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λᾰ́κτῐν tḕn láktin | λᾰ́κτῐε láktie | τᾱ̀ς λᾰ́κτῑς / λᾰ́κτῐᾰς tā̀s láktīs / láktias | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰ́κτῐ lákti | λᾰ́κτῐε láktie | λᾰ́κτῐες lákties | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- λάκτις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λάκτις 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