λέγνον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. Perhaps Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.ɡnon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.ɡnon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.ɣnon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.ɣnon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.ɣnon/
Noun
λέγνον • (légnon) n (genitive λέγνου); second declension
- coloured edging or border of a garment
- (anatomy) border of the womb
- Synonym: ὄσχῐον (óskhion)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ λέγνον; τοῦ λέγνου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λέγνον tò légnon | τὼ λέγνω tṑ légnō | τᾰ̀ λέγνᾰ tà légna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λέγνου toû légnou | τοῖν λέγνοιν toîn légnoin | τῶν λέγνων tôn légnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λέγνῳ tôi légnōi | τοῖν λέγνοιν toîn légnoin | τοῖς λέγνοις toîs légnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λέγνον tò légnon | τὼ λέγνω tṑ légnō | τᾰ̀ λέγνᾰ tà légna | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέγνον légnon | λέγνω légnō | λέγνᾰ légna | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λεγνόω (legnóō)
- λεγνώδης (legnṓdēs)
- λεγνωτός (legnōtós)
Further reading
- “λέγνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέγνον 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