Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /líθos/

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

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

Noun

λίθος • ‎(líthos) m ‎(genitive λίθου); second declension

1. a stone
2. stone as a substance

Usage notes

Λίθος is sometimes used as a feminine noun. This often (but not always) is used to refer to some special stone, such as a gem or magnet.

Inflection

Descendants

References

• λίθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λίθος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λίθος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «λίθος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «λίθος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• λίθος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3037”, 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.
  • boulder idem, page 90.
  • crag idem, page 182.
  • gem idem, page 355.
  • jewel idem, page 463.
  • pebble idem, page 601.
  • precious idem, page 633.
  • rock idem, page 719.
  • stone idem, page 819.
  • touch-stone idem, page 883.
  • trinket idem, page 895.
• 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

Greek

Noun

λίθος • ‎(líthos) m ‎(plural λίθοι)

1. stone (building material)

   θεμέλιος λίθος (foundation stone)

2. (medicine) stone, calculus
3. (archaeology) stone

   εποχή του λίθου (stone age)

Declension

Related terms

• λιθόσφαιρα f ‎(lithósfaira, “lithosphere”)
• λιθογραφία f ‎(lithografía, “lithograph, lithography”)
• λιθόστρωτο n ‎(lithóstroto, “cobblestone”)

See also

• πέτρα f ‎(pétra, “rock”)
• λογισμός m ‎(logismós, “calculus”) (mathematics)