λέπρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λέπρη (léprē) — Ionic

Etymology

Resembles λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) +‎ *-ρᾱ (*-rā), but with unclear morphology. Perhaps both words are ultimately Pre-Greek; compare λεβηρῐ́ς (lebērís, “shed skin”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

λέπρᾱ • (léprā) f (genitive λέπρᾱς); first declension

1. (medicine) psoriasis & similar skin disorders
2. (Koine, medicine) leprosy

Inflection

First declension of ἡ λέπρᾱ; τῆς λέπρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λέπρᾱ hē léprā	τὼ λέπρᾱ tṑ léprā	αἱ λέπραι hai léprai
Genitive	τῆς λέπρᾱς tês léprās	τοῖν λέπραιν toîn léprain	τῶν λεπρῶν tôn leprôn
Dative	τῇ λέπρᾳ têi léprāi	τοῖν λέπραιν toîn léprain	ταῖς λέπραις taîs léprais
Accusative	τὴν λέπρᾱν tḕn léprān	τὼ λέπρᾱ tṑ léprā	τᾱ̀ς λέπρᾱς tā̀s léprās
Vocative	λέπρᾱ léprā	λέπρᾱ léprā	λέπραι léprai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: lepra (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “λέπρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λέπρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λέπρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3014 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible