λῆνος

See also: ληνός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λᾶνος (lânos) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wlḗnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ū́rṇā), Latin lāna, Old English wull (whence English wool).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̂ː.nos/ → /ˈli.nos/ → /ˈli.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛ̂ː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈle̝.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.nos/

Noun

λῆνος • (lênos) n (genitive λήνους or λήνεος); third declension

1. wool
2. (in the plural) fleece

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ λῆνος; τοῦ λήνους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῆνος tò lênos	τὼ λήνει tṑ lḗnei	τᾰ̀ λήνη tà lḗnē
Genitive	τοῦ λήνους toû lḗnous	τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn	τῶν ληνῶν tôn lēnôn
Dative	τῷ λήνει tôi lḗnei	τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn	τοῖς λήνεσῐ / λήνεσῐν toîs lḗnesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ λῆνος tò lênos	τὼ λήνει tṑ lḗnei	τᾰ̀ λήνη tà lḗnē
Vocative	λῆνος lênos	λήνει lḗnei	λήνη lḗnē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λῆνος 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.
  • fleece idem, page 327.
  • wool idem, page 987.
• 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