ληΐς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λᾱΐς (lāḯs) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *lāwíts, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂wíds, from *leh₂w- (“to seize, profit”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛː.ís/ → /liˈis/ → /liˈis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛː.ís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /le̝ˈis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈis/

Noun

ληΐς • (lēḯs) m or f (genitive ληΐδος); third declension

1. booty, spoil

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ληΐς; τῆς ληῐ̈́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ληΐς hē lēḯs	τὼ ληῐ̈́δε tṑ lēḯde	αἱ ληῐ̈́δες hai lēḯdes
Genitive	τῆς ληῐ̈́δος tês lēḯdos	τοῖν ληΐδοιν toîn lēḯdoin	τῶν ληΐδων tôn lēḯdōn
Dative	τῇ ληῐ̈́δῐ têi lēḯdi	τοῖν ληΐδοιν toîn lēḯdoin	ταῖς ληῐ̈́σῐ / ληῐ̈́σῐν taîs lēḯsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ληῐ̈́δᾰ tḕn lēḯda	τὼ ληῐ̈́δε tṑ lēḯde	τᾱ̀ς ληῐ̈́δᾰς tā̀s lēḯdas
Vocative	ληΐ lēḯ	ληῐ̈́δε lēḯde	ληῐ̈́δες lēḯdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ληΐζομαι (lēḯzomai)

References

• “ληΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ληΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ληΐς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ληΐς 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
• “ληΐς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3816 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.