λίγδος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to λίγδα (lígda, “whetstone”) and λίγδην (lígdēn, “touching superifically, grazing”). According to Beekes, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to slide”) like Old High German slīhhan (“to creep”), Old Irish slige (“comb”) and Old Norse slíkr (“smooth”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /líɡ.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈliɡ.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈliɣ.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈliɣ.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈliɣ.ðos/
Noun
λίγδος • (lígdos) m (genitive λίγδου); second declension
- mortar
- Synonyms: θυεία (thueía), ἴγδις (ígdis)
- clay mould
- lye used as soap
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ λῐ́γδος; τοῦ λῐ́γδου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λῐ́γδος ho lígdos | τὼ λῐ́γδω tṑ lígdō | οἱ λῐ́γδοι hoi lígdoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λῐ́γδου toû lígdou | τοῖν λῐ́γδοιν toîn lígdoin | τῶν λῐ́γδων tôn lígdōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λῐ́γδῳ tôi lígdōi | τοῖν λῐ́γδοιν toîn lígdoin | τοῖς λῐ́γδοις toîs lígdois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λῐ́γδον tòn lígdon | τὼ λῐ́γδω tṑ lígdō | τοὺς λῐ́γδους toùs lígdous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῐ́γδε lígde | λῐ́γδω lígdō | λῐ́γδοι lígdoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- λίγδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λίγδος 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