λέκτρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λεχ- (lekh-, “to lie down”) +‎ -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *légʰtrom. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *lehtrą.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lék.tron/ → /ˈlek.tron/ → /ˈlek.tron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lék.tron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈlek.tron/

Noun

λέκτρον • (léktron) n (genitive λέκτρου); second declension

1. bed

   Synonym: κλίνη (klínē)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ λέκτρον; τοῦ λέκτρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λέκτρον tò léktron	τὼ λέκτρω tṑ léktrō	τᾰ̀ λέκτρᾰ tà léktra
Genitive	τοῦ λέκτρου toû léktrou	τοῖν λέκτροιν toîn léktroin	τῶν λέκτρων tôn léktrōn
Dative	τῷ λέκτρῳ tôi léktrōi	τοῖν λέκτροιν toîn léktroin	τοῖς λέκτροις toîs léktrois
Accusative	τὸ λέκτρον tò léktron	τὼ λέκτρω tṑ léktrō	τᾰ̀ λέκτρᾰ tà léktra
Vocative	λέκτρον léktron	λέκτρω léktrō	λέκτρᾰ léktra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• λέχομαι (lékhomai)
• λέχος (lékhos)
• λόχος (lókhos)

Descendants

• Greek: λέκτρο (léktro)

Further reading

• “λέκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λέκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λέκτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λέκτρον 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
• λέκτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “λέκτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alliance idem, page 25.
  • bed idem, page 68.
  • bier idem, page 78.
  • bride idem, page 97.
  • couch idem, page 176.
  • hand idem, page 382.
  • marriage idem, page 514.
  • marriage bed idem, page 514.