λαγών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g- (“weak, faint”) the same root of λαγαρός (lagarós, “hollow, sunken”), λαγαίω (lagaíō, “to release”), λάγνος (lágnos, “lascivious”), λήγω (lḗgō, “to stop, cease”) and λωγάνιον (lōgánion, “dewlap of oxen”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /la.ɡɔ̌ːn/ → /laˈɣon/ → /laˈɣon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /la.ɡɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /laˈɡon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /laˈɣon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /laˈɣon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /laˈɣon/

Noun

λᾰγών • (lagṓn) f or m (genitive λᾰγόνος); third declension

1. (anatomy) hollow on each side below the ribs, flank

   Synonym: κενεών (keneṓn)

2. (in the plural, in Later Greek) womb
3. (figuratively) any hollow, also of cups
4. flank of a mountain
5. side of a grave

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ λᾰγών; τοῦ, τῆς λᾰγόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ λᾰγών ho, hē lagṓn	τὼ λᾰγόνε tṑ lagóne	οἱ, αἱ λᾰγόνες hoi, hai lagónes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς λᾰγόνος toû, tês lagónos	τοῖν λᾰγόνοιν toîn lagónoin	τῶν λᾰγόνων tôn lagónōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ λᾰγόνῐ tôi, têi lagóni	τοῖν λᾰγόνοιν toîn lagónoin	τοῖς, ταῖς λᾰγόσῐ / λᾰγόσῐν toîs, taîs lagósi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν λᾰγόνᾰ tòn, tḕn lagóna	τὼ λᾰγόνε tṑ lagóne	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λᾰγόνᾰς toùs, tā̀s lagónas
Vocative	λᾰγών lagṓn	λᾰγόνε lagóne	λᾰγόνες lagónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: λαγόνα (lagóna)

Further reading

• “λαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λαγών 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

Greek

Noun

λαγών • (lagón) m

1. genitive plural of λαγός (lagós)