λείριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri) (compare Sahidic Coptic ϩⲣⲏⲣⲉ (hrēre)), from Demotic (ḥrry), from Egyptian
(ḥrrt, “flower”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lěː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ri.on/
Noun
λείριον • (leírion) n (genitive λειρίου); second declension
- Madonna lily (Lilium candidum)
- paperwhite (Narcissus tazetta)
- autumn narcissus (Narcissus serotinus)
Declension
Second declension of τὸ λείριον; τοῦ λειρίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λείριον tò leírion | τὼ λειρίω tṑ leiríō | τᾰ̀ λείριᾰ tà leíria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λειρίου toû leiríou | τοῖν λειρίοιν toîn leiríoin | τῶν λειρίων tôn leiríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λειρίῳ tôi leiríōi | τοῖν λειρίοιν toîn leiríoin | τοῖς λειρίοις toîs leiríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λείριον tò leírion | τὼ λειρίω tṑ leiríō | τᾰ̀ λείριᾰ tà leíria | ||||||||||
Vocative | λείριον leírion | λειρίω leiríō | λείριᾰ leíria | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λείρινος (leírinos)
- λειριόεις (leirióeis)
- λειριοπολφανεμώνη (leiriopolphanemṓnē)
- λείριος (leírios)
- λειριώδης (leiriṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: λειρί (leirí, “cock's comb”)
- → Latin: līlium (see there for further descendants)
- → Translingual: Lilium
- → Serbo-Croatian: lijȇr
References
- “λείριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λείριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λείριον 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