λῆδον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Backformation from λήδανον (lḗdanon, “labdanum”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛ̂ː.don/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle̝.don/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðon/
Noun
λῆδον • (lêdon) n (genitive λήδου); second declension
- gum rockrose (Cistus ladanifer), a shrub from which labdanum exudes
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ λῆδον; τοῦ λήδου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λῆδον tò lêdon | τὼ λήδω tṑ lḗdō | τᾰ̀ λῆδᾰ tà lêda | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λήδου toû lḗdou | τοῖν λήδοιν toîn lḗdoin | τῶν λήδων tôn lḗdōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λήδῳ tôi lḗdōi | τοῖν λήδοιν toîn lḗdoin | τοῖς λήδοις toîs lḗdois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λῆδον tò lêdon | τὼ λήδω tṑ lḗdō | τᾰ̀ λῆδᾰ tà lêda | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῆδον lêdon | λήδω lḗdō | λῆδᾰ lêda | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λῆδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λῆδον 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