λάθυρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. Traditionally compared to similar words for "lentil", like Latin lens, Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) and German Linse. According to Beekes, the structure (suffix -υρ-) could point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lǎː.tʰy.ros/ → /ˈla.θy.ros/ → /ˈla.θi.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lǎː.tʰy.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.tʰy.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.θy.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.θy.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.θi.ros/

Noun

λᾱ́θῠρος • (lā́thuros) m (genitive λᾱθῠ́ρου); second declension

1. chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λᾱ́θῠρος; τοῦ λᾱθῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λᾱ́θῠρος ho lā́thuros	τὼ λᾱθῠ́ρω tṑ lāthúrō	οἱ λᾱ́θῠροι hoi lā́thuroi
Genitive	τοῦ λᾱθῠ́ρου toû lāthúrou	τοῖν λᾱθῠ́ροιν toîn lāthúroin	τῶν λᾱθῠ́ρων tôn lāthúrōn
Dative	τῷ λᾱθῠ́ρῳ tôi lāthúrōi	τοῖν λᾱθῠ́ροιν toîn lāthúroin	τοῖς λᾱθῠ́ροις toîs lāthúrois
Accusative	τὸν λᾱ́θῠρον tòn lā́thuron	τὼ λᾱθῠ́ρω tṑ lāthúrō	τοὺς λᾱθῠ́ρους toùs lāthúrous
Vocative	λᾱ́θῠρε lā́thure	λᾱθῠ́ρω lāthúrō	λᾱ́θῠροι lā́thuroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λᾱθῠρῐ́ς (lāthurís)

Descendants

• → Latin: lāthyros
• → Translingual: Lathyrus

Further reading

• “λάθυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λάθυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λάθυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λᾱ́θυρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 822