λαῖλαψ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Pre-Greek, with intensive reduplication.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lâi̯.laps/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.laps/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.laps/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.laps/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.laps/
Noun
λαῖλαψ • (laîlaps) f (genitive λαίλᾰπος); third declension
- whirlwind, tornado
Declension
Third declension of ἡ λαῖλᾰψ; τῆς λαίλᾰπος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λαῖλᾰψ hē laîlaps | τὼ λαίλᾰπε tṑ laílape | αἱ λαίλᾰπες hai laílapes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λαίλᾰπος tês laílapos | τοῖν λαιλᾰ́ποιν toîn lailápoin | τῶν λαιλᾰ́πων tôn lailápōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λαίλᾰπῐ têi laílapi | τοῖν λαιλᾰ́ποιν toîn lailápoin | ταῖς λαίλᾰψῐ / λαίλᾰψῐν taîs laílapsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λαίλᾰπᾰ tḕn laílapa | τὼ λαίλᾰπε tṑ laílape | τᾱ̀ς λαίλᾰπᾰς tā̀s laílapas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λαῖλᾰψ laîlaps | λαίλᾰπε laílape | λαίλᾰπες laílapes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λαιλαπετός (lailapetós)
- λαιλαπίζω (lailapízō)
- λαιλαπώδης (lailapṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: λαίλαπα (laílapa)
Further reading
- λαῖλαψ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λαῖλαψ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λαῖλαψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λαῖλαψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- λαῖλαψ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- 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