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λῆνος
λῆνος
Ancient Greek
Noun
λῆνος • (lênos) n (genitive λήνεος); third declension
Inflection
Third declension of λῆνος, λήνεος (uncontracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | λῆνος | λήνεε | λήνεᾰ |
| Genitive | λήνεος | ληνέοιν | ληνέων |
| Dative | λήνεϊ | ληνέοιν | λήνεσσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | λῆνος | λήνεε | λήνεᾰ |
| Vocative | λῆνος | λήνεε | λήνεᾰ |
| Notes: | This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *λήνεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek. |
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Third declension of λῆνος, λήνους (contracted)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | λῆνος | λήνει | λήνη |
| Genitive | λήνους | ληνοῖν | ληνῶν |
| Dative | λήνει | ληνοῖν | λήνεσῐ(ν) |
| Accusative | λῆνος | λήνει | λήνη |
| Vocative | λῆνος | λήνει | λήνη |
| Notes: | The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm. |
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References
- 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.
- 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