λιγνύς

See also: λίγνυς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λίγνῠς (lígnus)

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /li.ɡny̌ːs/ → /liˈɣnys/ → /liˈɣnis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.ɡny̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /liˈɡnys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈɣnys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈɣnys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈɣnis/

Noun

λῐγνῡ́ς • (lignū́s) f (genitive λῐγνῠ́ος); third declension

1. thick smoke mixed with flame, murky fire (such as is made by burning resinous substances)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 4.387b.6
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 494
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1127
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1241
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 319
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 794
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 34.11.18
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 6.2.8
     • Strabo, Geography 6.2.10
     • Strabo, Geography 6.2.11
2. soot
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.72
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 12.61

Declension

Third declension of ἡ λῐγνῡ́ς; τῆς λῐγνῠ́ος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῐγνῡ́ς hē lignū́s	τὼ λῐγνῠ́ε tṑ lignúe	αἱ λῐγνῠ́ες hai lignúes
Genitive	τῆς λῐγνῠ́ος tês lignúos	τοῖν λῐγνῠ́οιν toîn lignúoin	τῶν λῐγνῠ́ων tôn lignúōn
Dative	τῇ λῐγνῠ́ῐ̈ têi lignúï	τοῖν λῐγνῠ́οιν toîn lignúoin	ταῖς λῐγνῠ́σῐ / λῐγνῠ́σῐν taîs lignúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λῐγνῡ́ν tḕn lignū́n	τὼ λῐγνῠ́ε tṑ lignúe	τᾱ̀ς λῐγνῦς / λῐγνῠ́ᾰς tā̀s lignûs / lignúas
Vocative	λῐγνῡ́ lignū́	λῐγνῠ́ε lignúe	λῐγνῠ́ες lignúes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λιγνῠόεις (lignuóeis)

Further reading

• “λιγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λιγνύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λιγνύς 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.
  • fume idem, page 349.
  • reek idem, page 684.
  • smoke idem, page 787.