λύγδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ending as in μόλυβδος (mólubdos) and κίβδος (kíbdos). A connection with λευκός (leukós, “white”) is morphologically hard to explain, as the suffix -δος is not productive. According to Beekes, the word is probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lýɡ.dos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlyɡ.dos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈlyɣ.ðos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈlyɣ.ðos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈliɣ.ðos/

Noun

λῠ́γδος • (lŭ́gdos) f (genitive λῠ́γδου); second declension

white marble

Declension

Second declension of ἡ λῠ́γδος; τῆς λῠ́γδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠ́γδος hē lŭ́gdos	τὼ λῠ́γδω tṑ lŭ́gdō	αἱ λῠ́γδοι hai lŭ́gdoi
Genitive	τῆς λῠ́γδου tês lŭ́gdou	τοῖν λῠ́γδοιν toîn lŭ́gdoin	τῶν λῠ́γδων tôn lŭ́gdōn
Dative	τῇ λῠ́γδῳ têi lŭ́gdōi	τοῖν λῠ́γδοιν toîn lŭ́gdoin	ταῖς λῠ́γδοις taîs lŭ́gdois
Accusative	τὴν λῠ́γδον tḕn lŭ́gdon	τὼ λῠ́γδω tṑ lŭ́gdō	τᾱ̀ς λῠ́γδους tā̀s lŭ́gdous
Vocative	λῠ́γδε lŭ́gde	λῠ́γδω lŭ́gdō	λῠ́γδοι lŭ́gdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

λυγδίνεος (lugdíneos)
λύγδινος (lúgdinos)

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