λύγδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ending as in μόλυβδος (mólubdos) and κίβδος (kíbdos). A connection with λευκός (leukós, “white”) is morphologically hard to explain, as the suffix -δος is not productive. According to Beekes, the word is probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lýɡ.dos/ → /ˈlyɣ.ðos/ → /ˈliɣ.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lýɡ.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈlyɡ.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈlyɣ.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈlyɣ.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈliɣ.ðos/

Noun

λῠ́γδος • (lúgdos) f (genitive λῠ́γδου); second declension

1. white marble

Declension

Second declension of ἡ λῠ́γδος; τῆς λῠ́γδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠ́γδος hē lúgdos	τὼ λῠ́γδω tṑ lúgdō	αἱ λῠ́γδοι hai lúgdoi
Genitive	τῆς λῠ́γδου tês lúgdou	τοῖν λῠ́γδοιν toîn lúgdoin	τῶν λῠ́γδων tôn lúgdōn
Dative	τῇ λῠ́γδῳ têi lúgdōi	τοῖν λῠ́γδοιν toîn lúgdoin	ταῖς λῠ́γδοις taîs lúgdois
Accusative	τὴν λῠ́γδον tḕn lúgdon	τὼ λῠ́γδω tṑ lúgdō	τᾱ̀ς λῠ́γδους tā̀s lúgdous
Vocative	λῠ́γδε lúgde	λῠ́γδω lúgdō	λῠ́γδοι lúgdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λυγδίνεος (lugdíneos)
• λύγδινος (lúgdinos)

 

Further reading

• “λύγδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λύγδος 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