λακίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *lakíds, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂k- (“to tear”). Cognate with Latin lacer and lancinō.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /la.kís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /laˈkis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /laˈcis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /laˈcis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /laˈcis/
Noun
λᾰκῐ́ς • (lakís) f (genitive λᾰκῐ́δος); third declension
- (often in the plural) rent, rending, tatters
Declension
Third declension of ἡ λᾰκῐ́ς; τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λᾰκῐ́ς hē lakís | τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lakíde | αἱ λᾰκῐ́δες hai lakídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος tês lakídos | τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lakídoin | τῶν λᾰκῐ́δων tôn lakídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λᾰκῐ́δῐ têi lakídi | τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lakídoin | ταῖς λᾰκῐ́σῐ / λᾰκῐ́σῐν taîs lakísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λᾰκῐ́δᾰ tḕn lakída | τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lakíde | τᾱ̀ς λᾰκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lakídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰκῐ́ς lakís | λᾰκῐ́δε lakíde | λᾰκῐ́δες lakídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λᾰκῐδόω (lakidóō)
- λᾰκῐ́ζω (lakízō)
Further reading
- “λακίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λακίς 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