λυχνῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ly.kʰnîː.tis/ → /lyˈxni.tis/ → /liˈxni.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ly.kʰnîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /lyˈkʰni.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lyˈxni.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lyˈxni.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈxni.tis/

Noun

λῠχνῖτῐς • (lukhnîtis) f (genitive λῠχνῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. candlewick (Verbascum mallophorum), of Greece, Albania, and southern Italy

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ λῠχνῖτῐς; τῆς λῠχνῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠχνῖτῐς hē lukhnîtis	τὼ λῠχνῑ́τῐδε tṑ lukhnī́tide	αἱ λῠχνῑ́τῐδες hai lukhnī́tides
Genitive	τῆς λῠχνῑ́τῐδος tês lukhnī́tidos	τοῖν λῠχνῑτῐ́δοιν toîn lukhnītídoin	τῶν λῠχνῑτῐ́δων tôn lukhnītídōn
Dative	τῇ λῠχνῑ́τῐδῐ têi lukhnī́tidi	τοῖν λῠχνῑτῐ́δοιν toîn lukhnītídoin	ταῖς λῠχνῑ́τῐσῐ / λῠχνῑ́τῐσῐν taîs lukhnī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λῠχνῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn lukhnī́tida	τὼ λῠχνῑ́τῐδε tṑ lukhnī́tide	τᾱ̀ς λῠχνῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s lukhnī́tidas
Vocative	λῠχνῖτῐς lukhnîtis	λῠχνῑ́τῐδε lukhnī́tide	λῠχνῑ́τῐδες lukhnī́tides
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.

References

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