λῆδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λᾶδος (lâdos) — Doric
• λᾶιδος (lâidos)

Etymology

The variation between forms with and without -ι- shows that the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̂ː.dos/ → /ˈli.ðos/ → /ˈli.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛ̂ː.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈle̝.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ðos/

Noun

λῆδος • (lêdos) n (genitive λήδεος); third declension

1. light summer dress

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ λῆδος; τοῦ λήδεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῆδος tò lêdos	τὼ λήδεε tṑ lḗdee	τᾰ̀ λήδεᾰ tà lḗdea
Genitive	τοῦ λήδεος toû lḗdeos	τοῖν ληδέοιν toîn lēdéoin	τῶν ληδέων tôn lēdéōn
Dative	τῷ λήδεῐ̈ tôi lḗdeï	τοῖν ληδέοιν toîn lēdéoin	τοῖς λήδεσῐ / λήδεσῐν toîs lḗdesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ λῆδος tò lêdos	τὼ λήδεε tṑ lḗdee	τᾰ̀ λήδεᾰ tà lḗdea
Vocative	λῆδος lêdos	λήδεε lḗdee	λήδεᾰ lḗdea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ληδάριον (lēdárion)
• λήδιον (lḗdion)

 

Further reading

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