λέπυρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λέπος (lépos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.pyː.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.py.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.py.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.py.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.pi.ron/
Noun
λέπῡρον • (lépūron) n (genitive λεπῡ́ρου); second declension
- (botany) rind, shell, husk, chaff
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ λέπῡρον; τοῦ λεπῡ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λέπῡρον tò lépūron | τὼ λεπῡ́ρω tṑ lepū́rō | τᾰ̀ λέπῡρᾰ tà lépūra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λεπῡ́ρου toû lepū́rou | τοῖν λεπῡ́ροιν toîn lepū́roin | τῶν λεπῡ́ρων tôn lepū́rōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λεπῡ́ρῳ tôi lepū́rōi | τοῖν λεπῡ́ροιν toîn lepū́roin | τοῖς λεπῡ́ροις toîs lepū́rois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λέπῡρον tò lépūron | τὼ λεπῡ́ρω tṑ lepū́rō | τᾰ̀ λέπῡρᾰ tà lépūra | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέπῡρον lépūron | λεπῡ́ρω lepū́rō | λέπῡρᾰ lépūra | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λέπυρο (lépyro)
Further reading
- “λέπυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέπυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette