λεῖμαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Identical with Latin līmax (“snail”), which is probably a Greek loan, but also with Proto-Slavic *slimakъ (“snail”). Thus, it has to be a derivative in -ak- of the m-stem in Proto-Germanic *slīmą (“slime, mucus”), Latin līmus (“mud, slime”) and Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lêː.maks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.maks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.maks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.maks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.maks/
Noun
λεῖμᾰξ • (leîmax) f (genitive λείμᾰκος); third declension
- Alternative form of λειμών (leimṓn)
- limax, snail
Declension
Third declension of ἡ λεῖμᾰξ; τῆς λείμᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λεῖμᾰξ hē leîmax | τὼ λείμᾰκε tṑ leímake | αἱ λείμᾰκες hai leímakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λείμᾰκος tês leímakos | τοῖν λειμᾰ́κοιν toîn leimákoin | τῶν λειμᾰ́κων tôn leimákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λείμᾰκῐ têi leímaki | λειμᾰ́κοιν leimákoin | ταῖς λείμᾰξῐ / λείμᾰξῐν taîs leímaxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λείμᾰκᾰ tḕn leímaka | λείμᾰκε leímake | τᾱ̀ς λείμᾰκᾰς tā̀s leímakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λεῖμᾰξ leîmax | λείμᾰκε leímake | λείμᾰκες leímakes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λειμᾰ́κῐδες (leimákides)
- λειμᾰκώδης (leimakṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: līmax
- → Translingual: Limax
Further reading
- λεῖμαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) , “λείμαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 843
- Hesychius' Lexicon: λ