λυχνῖτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”) + -ῖτις (-îtis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ly.kʰnîː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lyˈkʰni.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lyˈxni.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lyˈxni.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /liˈxni.tis/
Noun
λῠχνῖτῐς • (lukhnîtis) f (genitive λῠχνῑ́τῐδος); third declension
- candlewick (Verbascum mallophorum), of Greece, Albania, and southern Italy
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ λῠχνῖτῐς; τῆς λῠχνῑ́τῐδος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λῠχνῖτῐς hē lukhnîtis | τὼ λῠχνῑ́τῐδε tṑ lukhnī́tide | αἱ λῠχνῑ́τῐδες hai lukhnī́tides | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λῠχνῑ́τῐδος tês lukhnī́tidos | τοῖν λῠχνῑτῐ́δοιν toîn lukhnītídoin | τῶν λῠχνῑτῐ́δων tôn lukhnītídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λῠχνῑ́τῐδῐ têi lukhnī́tidi | τοῖν λῠχνῑτῐ́δοιν toîn lukhnītídoin | ταῖς λῠχνῑ́τῐσῐ / λῠχνῑ́τῐσῐν taîs lukhnī́tisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λῠχνῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn lukhnī́tida | τὼ λῠχνῑ́τῐδε tṑ lukhnī́tide | τᾱ̀ς λῠχνῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s lukhnī́tidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῠχνῖτῐς lukhnîtis | λῠχνῑ́τῐδε lukhnī́tide | λῠχνῑ́τῐδες lukhnī́tides | ||||||||||
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References
- λυχνῖτις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λυχνῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette