λάκκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• (pit, reservoir): λάκος (lákos)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *lə́kwos, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus. Cognates include Latin lacus, Old Irish loch, and Old English lagu (English lay).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lák.kos/ → /ˈla.kos/ → /ˈla.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lák.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlak.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kos/

Noun

λᾰ́κκος • (lákkos) m (genitive λᾰ́κκου); second declension

1. pond in which water-fowl are kept
2. cistern, tank

   Synonym: φρέαρ (phréar)

3. pit, reservoir
4. kind of garment

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λᾰ́κκος; τοῦ λᾰ́κκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λᾰ́κκος ho lákkos	τὼ λᾰ́κκω tṑ lákkō	οἱ λᾰ́κκοι hoi lákkoi
Genitive	τοῦ λᾰ́κκου toû lákkou	τοῖν λᾰ́κκοιν toîn lákkoin	τῶν λᾰ́κκων tôn lákkōn
Dative	τῷ λᾰ́κκῳ tôi lákkōi	τοῖν λᾰ́κκοιν toîn lákkoin	τοῖς λᾰ́κκοις toîs lákkois
Accusative	τὸν λᾰ́κκον tòn lákkon	τὼ λᾰ́κκω tṑ lákkō	τοὺς λᾰ́κκους toùs lákkous
Vocative	λᾰ́κκε lákke	λᾰ́κκω lákkō	λᾰ́κκοι lákkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λακκαῖος (lakkaîos)
• λακκάριος (lakkários)
• λακκίζω (lakkízō)
• Λακκίον (Lakkíon)
• λακκόπεδον (lakkópedon)
• λακκόπλουτος (lakkóploutos)
• λακκοποιός (lakkopoiós)
• λακκόω (lakkóō)
• λακκώδης (lakkṓdēs)
• προλάκκιον (prolákkion)

 

References

• “λάκκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λάκκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λάκκος 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cistern idem, page 133.
  • tank idem, page 855.
• 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, →ISBN