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 • (lăkĭ́s) 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 lăkĭ́s	τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lăkĭ́de	αἱ λᾰκῐ́δες hai lăkĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος tês lăkĭ́dos	τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lăkĭ́doin	τῶν λᾰκῐ́δων tôn lăkĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ λᾰκῐ́δῐ têi lăkĭ́dĭ	τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lăkĭ́doin	ταῖς λᾰκῐ́σῐ / λᾰκῐ́σῐν taîs lăkĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν λᾰκῐ́δᾰ tḕn lăkĭ́dă	τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lăkĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς λᾰκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lăkĭ́dăs
Vocative	λᾰκῐ́ς lăkĭ́s	λᾰκῐ́δε lăkĭ́de	λᾰκῐ́δες lăkĭ́des
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 (lăkĭdóō)
• λᾰκῐ́ζω (lăkĭ́zō)

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