λακίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *lakíds, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂k- (“to tear”). Cognate with Latin lacer and lancinō.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /la.kís/ → /laˈcis/ → /laˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /la.kís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /laˈkis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /laˈcis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /laˈcis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /laˈcis/

Noun

λᾰκῐ́ς • (lakís) f (genitive λᾰκῐ́δος); third declension

1. (often in the plural) rent, rending, tatters

Declension

Third declension of ἡ λᾰκῐ́ς; τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λᾰκῐ́ς hē lakís	τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lakíde	αἱ λᾰκῐ́δες hai lakídes
Genitive	τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος tês lakídos	τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lakídoin	τῶν λᾰκῐ́δων tôn lakídōn
Dative	τῇ λᾰκῐ́δῐ têi lakídi	τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lakídoin	ταῖς λᾰκῐ́σῐ / λᾰκῐ́σῐν taîs lakísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λᾰκῐ́δᾰ tḕn lakída	τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lakíde	τᾱ̀ς λᾰκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lakídas
Vocative	λᾰκῐ́ς lakís	λᾰκῐ́δε lakíde	λᾰκῐ́δες lakídes
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

• λᾰκῐδόω (lakidóō)
• λᾰκῐ́ζω (lakízō)

 

Further reading

• “λακίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λακίς 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