λέκτρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λεχ- (lekh-, “to lie down”) + -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *légʰtrom. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *lehtrą.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lék.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlek.tron/
Noun
λέκτρον • (léktron) n (genitive λέκτρου); second declension
- bed
- Synonym: κλίνη (klínē)
Declension
Second declension of τὸ λέκτρον; τοῦ λέκτρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λέκτρον tò léktron | τὼ λέκτρω tṑ léktrō | τᾰ̀ λέκτρᾰ tà léktra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λέκτρου toû léktrou | τοῖν λέκτροιν toîn léktroin | τῶν λέκτρων tôn léktrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λέκτρῳ tôi léktrōi | τοῖν λέκτροιν toîn léktroin | τοῖς λέκτροις toîs léktrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λέκτρον tò léktron | τὼ λέκτρω tṑ léktrō | τᾰ̀ λέκτρᾰ tà léktra | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέκτρον léktron | λέκτρω léktrō | λέκτρᾰ léktra | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- λέχομαι (lékhomai)
- λέχος (lékhos)
- λόχος (lókhos)
Descendants
- Greek: λέκτρο (léktro)
Further reading
- “λέκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λέκτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λέκτρον 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
- λέκτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λέκτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- alliance idem, page 25.
- bed idem, page 68.
- bier idem, page 78.
- bride idem, page 97.
- couch idem, page 176.
- hand idem, page 382.
- marriage idem, page 514.
- marriage bed idem, page 514.