λῆνος
See also: ληνός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λᾶνος (lânos) – Doric
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *wlḗnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ū́rṇā), Latin lāna, Old English wull (whence English wool).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɛ̂ː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle̝.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.nos/
Noun
λῆνος • (lênos) n (genitive λήνους or λήνεος); third declension
- wool
- (in the plural) fleece
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ λῆνος; τοῦ λήνους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λῆνος tò lênos | τὼ λήνει tṑ lḗnei | τᾰ̀ λήνη tà lḗnē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λήνους toû lḗnous | τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn | τῶν ληνῶν tôn lēnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λήνει tôi lḗnei | τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn | τοῖς λήνεσῐ / λήνεσῐν toîs lḗnesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λῆνος tò lênos | τὼ λήνει tṑ lḗnei | τᾰ̀ λήνη tà lḗnē | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῆνος lênos | λήνει lḗnei | λήνη lḗnē | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῆνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fleece idem, page 327.
- wool idem, page 987.
- 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