Lesbos

See also: lesbos

English

Alternative forms

• Lesvos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bɒs/

Proper noun

Lesbos

1. An island in Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

Synonyms

• Mytilene

Related terms

• lesbian
• lesbic

Translations

island

• Arabic: لسبوس (lisbūs), لزبوس (lizbūs)
• Armenian: Լեսբոս (hy) (Lesbos)
• Catalan: Lesbos f
• Corsican: Lesbu f
• Czech: Lesbos (cs)
• Dutch: Lesbos
• Esperanto: Lesbo, Mitileno
• Finnish: Lesbos (fi)
• French: Lesbos (fr) f
• Georgian: ლესბოსი (lesbosi)
• German: Lesbos (de) n
• Greek: Λέσβος (el) (Lésvos)

  Ancient: Λέσβος f (Lésbos)

• Hittite: 𒆷𒊍𒉺 (la-az-pa)
• Hungarian: Leszbosz
• Italian: Lesbo f
• Latin: Lesbos f
• Marathi: लेस्बोस (lesbos)
• Ottoman Turkish: مدللی (Midilli)
• Polish: Lesbos (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lesbos (pt) f
• Romanian: Lesbos n
• Russian: Ле́сбос (ru) m (Lésbos)
• Sardinian: Lesbos f
• Sicilian: Lesbu
• Spanish: Lesbos
• Turkish: Midilli (tr)

See also

• Lesbos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bloses, Sobels, sobels

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛzbos]
• Hyphenation: Le‧s‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos m inan (related adjective lesboský)

1. Lesbos

Declension

Declension of Lesbos (sg-only hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular
nominative	Lesbos
genitive	Lesbu
dative	Lesbu
accusative	Lesbos
vocative	Lesbe
locative	Lesbu
instrumental	Lesbem

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lesbus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Proper noun

Lesbos f sg (genitive Lesbī); second declension

1. Lesbos

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lesbos
Genitive	Lesbī
Dative	Lesbō
Accusative	Lesbon
Ablative	Lesbō
Vocative	Lesbe
Locative	Lesbī

Related terms

• Lesbia
• Lesbiacus
• Lesbiās
• Lesbis
• Lesbium
• Lesbius
• Lesbōus

References

• “Lesbos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lesbos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bɔs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛzbɔs
• Syllabification: Les‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos f (indeclinable)

1. Lesbos (an island and regional unit of the North Aegean region, Greece)

Derived terms

adjective

• lesbejski

 

nouns

• Lesbijczyk
• Lesbijka

 

Related terms

adjective

• lesbijski

 

nouns

• lesba
• lesbianizm
• lesbijka
• lesbijstwo
• lesbizm

 

Further reading

• Lesbos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛʒ.buʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bos/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛʒ.buʃ/ [ˈlɛʒ.βuʃ]

• Hyphenation: Les‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos

1. Lesbos (an island and regional unit of the North Aegean region, Greece)

Spanish

Proper noun

Lesbos ?

1. Lesbos (an island in Greece)

Related terms

• lesbio