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

(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 • (lā́thŭros) m (genitive λᾱθῠ́ρου); second declension

chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λᾱ́θῠρος; τοῦ λᾱθῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λᾱ́θῠρος ho lā́thŭros	τὼ λᾱθῠ́ρω tṑ lāthŭ́rō	οἱ λᾱ́θῠροι hoi lā́thŭroi
Genitive	τοῦ λᾱθῠ́ρου toû lāthŭ́rou	τοῖν λᾱθῠ́ροιν toîn lāthŭ́roin	τῶν λᾱθῠ́ρων tôn lāthŭ́rōn
Dative	τῷ λᾱθῠ́ρῳ tôi lāthŭ́rōi	τοῖν λᾱθῠ́ροιν toîn lāthŭ́roin	τοῖς λᾱθῠ́ροις toîs lāthŭ́rois
Accusative	τὸν λᾱ́θῠρον tòn lā́thŭron	τὼ λᾱθῠ́ρω tṑ lāthŭ́rō	τοὺς λᾱθῠ́ρους toùs lāthŭ́rous
Vocative	λᾱ́θῠρε lā́thŭre	λᾱθῠ́ρω lāthŭ́rō	λᾱ́θῠροι lā́thŭroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

λᾱθῠρῐ́ς (lāthŭrĭ́s)

Descendants

→ Latin: lāthyros
→ Translingual: Lathyrus

“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