λέπας
See also: λεπάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The similarity with Latin lapis (“stone”) is hardly accidental; a Mediterranean substrate borrowing is most probable, perhaps through Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.pas/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.pas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.pas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.pas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.pas/
Noun
λέπας • (lépas) n (indeclinable)
- bare rock, scaur, crag
Derived terms
- λεπαῖος (lepaîos)
- λεπάς (lepás)
- λεπαστή (lepastḗ)
- λέπαστρον (lépastron)
Further reading
- “λέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λέπας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λέπας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 848