Ancient Greek

Noun

λοιμός • ‎(loimós) m ‎(genitive λοιμοῦ); second declension

1. plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder
   1. (of person) a plague, a pest
2. (as adjective) pestilent

Inflection

References

• λοιμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λοιμός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λοιμός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «λοιμός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «λοιμός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3061”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • contagion idem, page 166.
  • disease idem, page 232.
  • epidemic idem, page 279.
  • infectious disease idem, page 437.
  • murrain idem, page 547.
  • pest idem, page 609.
  • pestilence idem, page 609.
  • plague idem, page 616.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • sickness idem, page 772.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Noun

λοιμός • ‎(loimós) m ‎(plural λοιμοί)

1. (medicine) epidemic, plague

Declension

Related terms

• λοίμωξη m ‎(loímoxi, “infection”)
• λοιμώδης ‎(loimódis, “infectious”)
• λοιμοκαθαρτήριο n ‎(loimokathartírio, “quarantine”)

External links

• λοιμός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el