λάσθη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with Latin lascīvus (“wanton, lusty”) is inadequate. Perhaps from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lás.tʰɛː/ → /ˈlas.θi/ → /ˈlas.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lás.tʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.tʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.θi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.θi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.θi/

Noun

λάσθη • (lásthē) f (genitive λάσθης); first declension

1. insult, mockery

Inflection

First declension of ἡ λάσθη; τῆς λάσθης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λάσθη hē lásthē	τὼ λάσθᾱ tṑ lásthā	αἱ λάσθαι hai lásthai
Genitive	τῆς λάσθης tês lásthēs	τοῖν λάσθαιν toîn lásthain	τῶν λασθῶν tôn lasthôn
Dative	τῇ λάσθῃ têi lásthēi	τοῖν λάσθαιν toîn lásthain	ταῖς λάσθαις taîs lásthais
Accusative	τὴν λάσθην tḕn lásthēn	τὼ λάσθᾱ tṑ lásthā	τᾱ̀ς λάσθᾱς tā̀s lásthās
Vocative	λάσθη lásthē	λάσθᾱ lásthā	λάσθαι lásthai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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