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λέχος
λέχος
Ancient Greek
Noun
λέχος • (lékhos) n (genitive λέχεος); third declension
Inflection
Third declension of λέχος, λέχεος (uncontracted)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | λέχος | λέχεε | λέχεᾰ |
Genitive | λέχεος | λεχέοιν | λεχέων |
Dative | λέχεϊ | λεχέοιν | λέχεσσῐ(ν) |
Accusative | λέχος | λέχεε | λέχεᾰ |
Vocative | λέχος | λέχεε | λέχεᾰ |
Notes: | This inflection pattern originally had a sigma (i.e. *λέχεσος), which was dropped early in the history of Ancient Greek. |
Third declension of λέχος, λέχους (contracted)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | λέχος | λέχει | λέχη |
Genitive | λέχους | λεχοῖν | λεχῶν |
Dative | λέχει | λεχοῖν | λέχεσῐ(ν) |
Accusative | λέχος | λέχει | λέχη |
Vocative | λέχος | λέχει | λέχη |
Notes: | The irregular accentuation of this paradigm is explained by the fact that it is the contracted version of the above paradigm. |
References
- λέχος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέχος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λέχος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «λέχος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «λέχος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- λέχος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- 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