Λέσβος
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Name said to originally mean 'forested' or 'woody,' possibly a Hittite borrowing, as the original Hittite name for the island was Lazpa.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /léz.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlez.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlez.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlez.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlez.vos/
Proper noun edit
Λέσβος • (Lésbos) f (genitive Λέσβου); second declension
Inflection edit
Derived terms edit
- Λέσβῐος (Lésbios)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Λέσβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Λέσβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Λέσβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Λέσβος • (Lésvos) f
- Lesbos (third largest island in Greece)
Declension edit
Λέσβος
Synonyms edit
- Μυτιλήνη f (Mytilíni, “Mytilene”)
Derived terms edit
- Λέσβιος m (Lésvios, “male from Lesbos”)
- Λέσβια f (Lésvia, “female from Lesbos”)
- Λεσβία f (Lesvía, “female from Lesbos”)
- λεσβιακός (lesviakós) (adjective)
Further reading edit
- Λέσβος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el