λέχος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *légʰos, from *legʰ-, whence also λέχομαι (lékhomai). Cognates include Russian лог (log, “cleft, valley”), Polish odłóg, and Albanian lagje.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.xos/
Noun
λέχος • (lékhos) n (genitive λέχους or λέχεος); third declension
- couch, bed
- bier
- marriage-bed: and generally, marriage
- a bird's nest
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ λέχος; τοῦ λέχους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λέχος tò lékhos | τὼ λέχει tṑ lékhei | τᾰ̀ λέχη tà lékhē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λέχους toû lékhous | τοῖν λεχοῖν toîn lekhoîn | τῶν λεχῶν tôn lekhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λέχει tôi lékhei | τοῖν λεχοῖν toîn lekhoîn | τοῖς λέχεσῐ / λέχεσῐν toîs lékhesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λέχος tò lékhos | τὼ λέχει tṑ lékhei | τᾰ̀ λέχη tà lékhē | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέχος lékhos | λέχει lékhei | λέχη lékhē | ||||||||||
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Third declension of λέχος; λέχεος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | λέχος lékhos | λέχει / λέχεε lékhei / lékhee | λέχεᾰ lékhea | ||||||||||
Genitive | λέχεος / λέχευς lékheos / lékheus | λεχέοιν lekhéoin | λεχέων lekhéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | λέχει / λέχεῐ̈ lékhei / lékheï | λεχέοιν lekhéoin | λεχέεσσῐ / λεχέεσσῐν lekhéessi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | λέχος lékhos | λέχει / λέχεε lékhei / lékhee | λέχεᾰ lékhea | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέχος lékhos | λέχει / λέχεε lékhei / lékhee | λέχεᾰ lékhea | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- λέκτρον (léktron)
- λέχομαι (lékhomai)
- λόχος (lókhos)
Further reading
- “λέχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λέχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λέχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λέχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λέχος”, 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.
- bride idem, page 97.
- connect idem, page 161.
- couch idem, page 176.
- den idem, page 210.
- hand idem, page 382.
- lair idem, page 474.
- lurking idem, page 505.
- marriage idem, page 514.
- marriage bed idem, page 514.
- nest idem, page 556.
- 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