λεχώ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lay”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /le.kʰɔ̌ː/ → /leˈxo/ → /leˈxo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /le.kʰɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /leˈkʰo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /leˈxo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /leˈxo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /leˈxo/

Noun

λεχώ • (lekhṓ) f (genitive λεχόος or λεχοῦς); third declension

1. a woman in childbed, or one who has just given birth

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ λεχώ; τῆς λεχόος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ λεχώ hē lekhṓ
Genitive	τῆς λεχόος / λεχοῦς tês lekhóos / lekhoûs
Dative	τῇ λεχοῖ têi lekhoî
Accusative	τὴν λεχώ tḕn lekhṓ
Vocative	λεχοῖ lekhoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: λεχώνα (lechóna)

References

• “λεχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λεχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λεχώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • childbed idem, page 129.
  • labour idem, page 472.
  • travail idem, page 890.