Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /lýkos/

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

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

Proper noun

Λύκος • ‎(Lúkos) m ‎(genitive Λύκου); second declension

1. Lycus; Lycos; Lykos

Inflection

Descendants

• English: Lycus; Lycos
• Greek: Λύκος ‎(Lýkos)
• Latin: Lycus

References

• «Λύκος» 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, page 1,016

Greek

Λύκος

Proper noun

Λύκος • ‎(Lýkos) m

1. (astronomy) Lupus (summer constellation of the northern sky)

Declension

Ancient Greek

Noun

λύκος • ‎(lúkos) m ‎(genitive λύκου); second declension

1. wolf
2. curb bit
3. a kind of jackdaw

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: λύκος ‎(lýkos)

References

• λύκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λύκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λύκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «λύκος» 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
• «λύκος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• λύκος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3074”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «λύκος» 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.
  • Lycus idem, page 1016.
  • wolf idem, page 986.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύκος ‎(lúkos), from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos ‎(“wolf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liko̞s/
• Hyphenation: λύ‧κος

Noun

λύκος • ‎(lýkos) m ‎(plural λύκοι, feminine λύκαινα)

1. wolf
2. wolfdog
3. aggressive and bloodthirsty person
4. (pathology) lupus
5. cock of old hunting gun

Declension

Related terms

• λυκάκι n ‎(lykáki, “wolf cub”)
• στο στόμα του λύκου ‎(sto stóma tou lýkou, “into lion's den”)
• ο λύκος κι αν εγέρασε κι άσπρισε το μαλλί του, μήτε τη γνώμη άλλαξε, μήτε την κεφαλή του ‎(o lýkos ki an egérase ki ásprise to mallí tou, míte ti gnómi állaxe, míte tin kefalí tou, “a leopard cannot change its spots”)