λιθολάβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /li.tʰo.lá.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /li.tʰoˈla.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /li.θoˈla.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /li.θoˈla.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /li.θoˈla.vos/
Noun
λῐθολᾰ́βος • (litholábos) m (genitive λῐθολᾰ́βου); second declension
- instrument for extracting stones
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ λῐθολᾰ́βος; τοῦ λῐθολᾰ́βου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λῐθολᾰ́βος ho litholábos | τὼ λῐθολᾰ́βω tṑ litholábō | οἱ λῐθολᾰ́βοι hoi litholáboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λῐθολᾰ́βου toû litholábou | τοῖν λῐθολᾰ́βοιν toîn litholáboin | τῶν λῐθολᾰ́βων tôn litholábōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λῐθολᾰ́βῳ tôi litholábōi | τοῖν λῐθολᾰ́βοιν toîn litholáboin | τοῖς λῐθολᾰ́βοις toîs litholábois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λῐθολᾰ́βον tòn litholábon | τὼ λῐθολᾰ́βω tṑ litholábō | τοὺς λῐθολᾰ́βους toùs litholábous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῐθολᾰ́βε litholábe | λῐθολᾰ́βω litholábō | λῐθολᾰ́βοι litholáboi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: litholabe
Further reading
- λιθολάβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λιθολάβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette