λέπας

See also: λεπάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The similarity with Latin lapis (“stone”) is hardly accidental; a Mediterranean substrate borrowing is most probable, perhaps through Pre-Greek. Otherwise, from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel”) (compare secō – saxum; rumpō – rupēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lé.pas/ → /ˈle.pas/ → /ˈle.pas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lé.pas/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈle.pas/

Noun

λέπας • (lépas) n (indeclinable)

1. bare rock, scaur, crag

Derived terms

• λεπαῖος (lepaîos)
• λεπάς (lepás)
• λεπαστή (lepastḗ)
• λέπαστρον (lépastron)

 

Further reading

• “λέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λέπας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λέπας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 848