λεξικόν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Attested at least since 9th century (Photios' Bibliotheca). Ellipsis of λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of or pertaining to words”), formally a Neuter substantive of adjective λεξικός (lexikós), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “I speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lek.si.kón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lek.siˈkon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lek.siˈkon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lek.siˈkon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /lek.siˈkon/
Noun
λεξῐκόν • (lexikón) n (genitive λεξῐκοῦ); second declension
- (Byzantine) lexicon, dictionary
- Οὗ τινος εὑρεθείη ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ πίνακι διαγεγραμμένον ἕτερόν τι ἢ Γραφικὸν ἢ Λεξικὸν ἢ πρὸς ἀδελφὸν ἐπισταλτικόν, πλὴν οὗπερ ἐκμανθάνοι στιχηροῦ ἢ καθίσματος, ἀφοριζέσθω ἡμέραν μίαν.
- Hoû tinos heuretheíē en tôi idíōi pínaki diagegramménon héterón ti ḕ Graphikòn ḕ Lexikòn ḕ pròs adelphòn epistaltikón, plḕn hoûper ekmanthánoi stikhēroû ḕ kathísmatos, aphorizésthō hēméran mían.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ λεξῐκόν; τοῦ λεξῐκοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λεξῐκόν tò lexikón | τὼ λεξῐκώ tṑ lexikṓ | τᾰ̀ λεξῐκᾰ́ tà lexiká | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λεξῐκοῦ toû lexikoû | τοῖν λεξῐκοῖν toîn lexikoîn | τῶν λεξῐκῶν tôn lexikôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λεξῐκῷ tôi lexikôi | τοῖν λεξῐκοῖν toîn lexikoîn | τοῖς λεξῐκοῖς toîs lexikoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λεξῐκόν tò lexikón | τὼ λεξῐκώ tṑ lexikṓ | τᾰ̀ λεξῐκᾰ́ tà lexiká | ||||||||||
Vocative | λεξῐκόν lexikón | λεξῐκώ lexikṓ | λεξῐκᾰ́ lexiká | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λεξικό (lexikó)
- → Aramaic: לכסיקון
- → Latin: lexicon
- → Dutch: lexicon m
- → German: Lexikon, Lexicon
- → Czech: lexikon
- → Hungarian: lexikon (“encyclopedia”)
- → Swedish: lexikon
- → Middle French: lexicon m
- French: lexique m
- → English: lexicon (possibly; or directly from Latin)
- → Church Slavonic: леѯико́нъ m (leksikónŭ)
- → Russian: лексико́н m (leksikón)
- → Bulgarian: лексико́н m (leksikón)
- → Russian: лексико́н m (leksikón)
- Unsorted
- Serbo-Croatian: лексикон m
- Spanish: léxico m
- Polish: leksykon m
- Portuguese: léxico m
Adjective
λεξῐκόν • (lexikón)
- inflection of λεξῐκός (lexikós):
- masculine accusative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
References
- “λεξικόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press