λάπαθον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λάπαθος (lápathos)

Etymology

The connection with λάπαθα (lápatha, “faeces”) recalls λαπάσσω (lapássō, “to empty the bowels”). Because of the formation, foreign origin is suspected. Put as possibly from Pre-Greek by Beekes; likely from a Balkan source, see Proto-Slavic *loboda (“orach”) for farther relations.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.pa.tʰon/ → /ˈla.pa.θon/ → /ˈla.pa.θon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.pa.tʰon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pa.tʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pa.θon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pa.θon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pa.θon/

Noun

λᾰ́πᾰθον • (lápathon) n (genitive λᾰπᾰ́θου); second declension

1. monk's rhubarb (Rumex patientia)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ λᾰ́πᾰθον; τοῦ λᾰπᾰ́θου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λᾰ́πᾰθον tò lápathon	τὼ λᾰπᾰ́θω tṑ lapáthō	τᾰ̀ λᾰ́πᾰθᾰ tà lápatha
Genitive	τοῦ λᾰπᾰ́θου toû lapáthou	τοῖν λᾰπᾰ́θοιν toîn lapáthoin	τῶν λᾰπᾰ́θων tôn lapáthōn
Dative	τῷ λᾰπᾰ́θῳ tôi lapáthōi	τοῖν λᾰπᾰ́θοιν toîn lapáthoin	τοῖς λᾰπᾰ́θοις toîs lapáthois
Accusative	τὸ λᾰ́πᾰθον tò lápathon	τὼ λᾰπᾰ́θω tṑ lapáthō	τᾰ̀ λᾰ́πᾰθᾰ tà lápatha
Vocative	λᾰ́πᾰθον lápathon	λᾰπᾰ́θω lapáthō	λᾰ́πᾰθᾰ lápatha
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βουλάπαθον (boulápathon)
• ἱππολάπαθον (hippolápathon)
• λαπαθοειδής (lapathoeidḗs)
• ὀξυλάπαθον (oxulápathon)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: lapathum

Further reading

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