Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• 𐀅𐀢𐀪𐀵𐀍 ‎(da-pu-ri-to-jo) (Mycenaean)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /laβýrinθos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lavýrĩθos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lavíɾiθos/

Noun

λαβύρινθος • ‎(labúrinthos) m ‎(genitive λαβυρίνθου); second declension

1. labyrinth, a building composed of numerous winding halls
2. something obscure, inscrutable
3. coil, tangle

Inflection

Descendants

• English: labyrinth, labyrinthodont
• Italian: labirinto
• Russian: лабиринт m ‎(labirínt)

References

• λαβύρινθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λαβύρινθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «λαβύρινθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «λαβύρινθος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • labyrinth idem, page 473.
  • maze idem, page 519.
• 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

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ Smith, William, ed., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: John Murray

Greek

Noun

λαβύρινθος • ‎(lavýrinthos) m ‎(plural λαβύρινθοι)

1. maze, labyrinth
2. (anatomy) labyrinth (part of inner ear)

Declension