λεπίς
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”) + -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /le.pís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /leˈpis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /leˈpis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /leˈpis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /leˈpis/
Noun
[edit]λεπῐ́ς • (lepís) f (genitive λεπῐ́δος); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λεπῐ́ς hē lepís |
τὼ λεπῐ́δε tṑ lepíde |
αἱ λεπῐ́δες hai lepídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λεπῐ́δος tês lepídos |
τοῖν λεπῐ́δοιν toîn lepídoin |
τῶν λεπῐ́δων tôn lepídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λεπῐ́δῐ têi lepídi |
τοῖν λεπῐ́δοιν toîn lepídoin |
ταῖς λεπῐ́σῐ / λεπῐ́σῐν taîs lepísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λεπῐ́δᾰ tḕn lepída |
τὼ λεπῐ́δε tṑ lepíde |
τᾱ̀ς λεπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lepídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λεπῐ́ς lepís |
λεπῐ́δε lepíde |
λεπῐ́δες lepídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- λεπιδωτός (lepidōtós)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: λεπίδα (lepída)
- Translingual: acrolepis, Grammicolepis, Lepidoptera
References
[edit]- “λεπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεπίς 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
- G3013 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.