λίψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *leyb-, the same root of λείβω (leíbō, “to pour”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /líps/ → /lips/ → /lips/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /líps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /lips/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lips/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lips/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lips/

Noun

λῐ́ψ • (líps) m (genitive λῐβός); third declension

1. southwest
2. southwestern wind

Declension

Third declension of ὁ λῐ́ψ; τοῦ λῐβός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λῐ́ψ ho líps	τὼ λῐ́βε tṑ líbe	οἱ λῐ́βες hoi líbes
Genitive	τοῦ λῐβός toû libós	τοῖν λῐβοῖν toîn liboîn	τῶν λῐβῶν tôn libôn
Dative	τῷ λῐβῐ́ tôi libí	τοῖν λῐβοῖν toîn liboîn	τοῖς λῐψῐ́ / λῐψῐ́ν toîs lipsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν λῐ́βᾰ tòn líba	τὼ λῐ́βε tṑ líbe	τοὺς λῐ́βᾰς toùs líbas
Vocative	λῐ́ψ líps	λῐ́βε líbe	λῐ́βες líbes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• →? Arabic: رِيح لَبَاش (rīḥ labāš), رِيح لَبَاج (rīḥ labāj)
  • →? Sicilian: libiciu
    • → Maltese: lbiċ

Etymology 2

From the same root of λίπτω (líptō, “to desire”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /líps/ → /lips/ → /lips/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /líps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /lips/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lips/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lips/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lips/

Noun

λίψ • (líps)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἐπιθυμία (epithumía, “desire, yearning”).

Further reading

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