λῆδος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λᾶδος (lâdos) – Doric
- λᾶιδος (lâidos)
Etymology
The variation between forms with and without -ι- shows that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛ̂ː.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle̝.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ðos/
Noun
λῆδος • (lêdos) n (genitive λήδεος); third declension
- light summer dress
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ λῆδος; τοῦ λήδεος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λῆδος tò lêdos | τὼ λήδεε tṑ lḗdee | τᾰ̀ λήδεᾰ tà lḗdea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λήδεος toû lḗdeos | τοῖν ληδέοιν toîn lēdéoin | τῶν ληδέων tôn lēdéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λήδεῐ̈ tôi lḗdeï | τοῖν ληδέοιν toîn lēdéoin | τοῖς λήδεσῐ / λήδεσῐν toîs lḗdesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λῆδος tò lêdos | τὼ λήδεε tṑ lḗdee | τᾰ̀ λήδεᾰ tà lḗdea | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῆδος lêdos | λήδεε lḗdee | λήδεᾰ lḗdea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ληδάριον (lēdárion)
- λήδιον (lḗdion)
Further reading
- “λῆδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λῆδος 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