λεπίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”) +‎ -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /le.pís/ → /leˈpis/ → /leˈpis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /le.pís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /leˈpis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /leˈpis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /leˈpis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /leˈpis/

Noun

λεπῐ́ς • (lepís) f (genitive λεπῐ́δος); third declension

1. scale, flake, shell, husk
2. epithelial debris
3. plate of metal
4. blade of a saw

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ λεπῐ́ς; τῆς λεπῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λεπῐ́ς hē lepís	τὼ λεπῐ́δε tṑ lepíde	αἱ λεπῐ́δες hai lepídes
Genitive	τῆς λεπῐ́δος tês lepídos	τοῖν λεπῐ́δοιν toîn lepídoin	τῶν λεπῐ́δων tôn lepídōn
Dative	τῇ λεπῐ́δῐ têi lepídi	τοῖν λεπῐ́δοιν toîn lepídoin	ταῖς λεπῐ́σῐ / λεπῐ́σῐν taîs lepísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λεπῐ́δᾰ tḕn lepída	τὼ λεπῐ́δε tṑ lepíde	τᾱ̀ς λεπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lepídas
Vocative	λεπῐ́ς lepís	λεπῐ́δε lepíde	λεπῐ́δες lepídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• λεπιδωτός (lepidōtós)

Descendants

• Translingual: acrolepis, Grammicolepis, Lepidoptera

References

• “λεπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λεπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λεπίς 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
• G3013 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • egg-shell idem, page 263.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • shell idem, page 764.