λέκιθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Because of the suffix and the meaning, the word is clearly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lé.ki.tʰos/ → /ˈle.ci.θos/ → /ˈle.ci.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lé.ki.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ki.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ci.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ci.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈle.ci.θos/

Noun

λέκῐθος • (lékithos) m or f (genitive λεκῐ́θου); second declension

1. (masculine) gruel of pulse or cereals
2. (feminine) yolk of an egg

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ λέκῐθος; τοῦ, τῆς λεκῐ́θου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ λέκῐθος ho, hē lékithos	τὼ λεκῐ́θω tṑ lekíthō	οἱ, αἱ λέκῐθοι hoi, hai lékithoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς λεκῐ́θου toû, tês lekíthou	τοῖν λεκῐ́θοιν toîn lekíthoin	τῶν λεκῐ́θων tôn lekíthōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ λεκῐ́θῳ tôi, têi lekíthōi	τοῖν λεκῐ́θοιν toîn lekíthoin	τοῖς, ταῖς λεκῐ́θοις toîs, taîs lekíthois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν λέκῐθον tòn, tḕn lékithon	τὼ λεκῐ́θω tṑ lekíthō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λεκῐ́θους toùs, tā̀s lekíthous
Vocative	λέκῐθε lékithe	λεκῐ́θω lekíthō	λέκῐθοι lékithoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λεκῐ́θῐον (lekíthion)
• λεκῐθῑ́της (lekithī́tēs)
• λεκῐθοειδής (lekithoeidḗs)
• λεκῐθοπώλης (lekithopṓlēs)
• λεκῐθώδης (lekithṓdēs)

Descendants

• →⇒ French: lécithine (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “λέκιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λέκιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λέκιθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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