λίθος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Has been compared to λεῖος (leîos, “smooth”), λιτός (litós, “simple, plain”), Latin laedō (“to strike, hurt”), and Lithuanian slidùs. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin, noting that words for "stone" are often taken from a substrate language.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lí.tʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.tʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.θos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.θos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.θos/
Noun[edit]
λῐ́θος • (líthos) m (genitive λῐ́θου); second declension
- a stone
- Synonym: πέτρος (pétros)
- stone as a substance
- Synonym: πέτρα (pétra)
- stone, pebble (used as as piece in a board-game)
- large rock or stone block, used as a seat to a speaker's platform, especially in the Assembly or in the Athenian agora, where archons, arbitrators and certain witnesses swore oaths
Usage notes[edit]
Λίθος is sometimes used as a feminine noun. This often (but not always) is used to refer to some special stone, such as a gem or magnet.
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ λῐ́θος ho, hē líthos |
τὼ λῐ́θω tṑ líthō |
οἱ, αἱ λῐ́θοι hoi, hai líthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς λῐ́θου toû, tês líthou |
τοῖν λῐ́θοιν toîn líthoin |
τῶν λῐ́θων tôn líthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ λῐ́θῳ tôi, têi líthōi |
τοῖν λῐ́θοιν toîn líthoin |
τοῖς, ταῖς λῐ́θοις toîs, taîs líthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν λῐ́θον tòn, tḕn líthon |
τὼ λῐ́θω tṑ líthō |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λῐ́θους toùs, tā̀s líthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῐ́θε líthe |
λῐ́θω líthō |
λῐ́θοι líthoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Descendants of λίθος in other languages
Further reading[edit]
- “λίθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λίθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λίθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λίθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- λίθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λίθος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3037 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos).
Noun[edit]
λίθος • (líthos) m (plural λίθοι)
- stone (building material)
- θεμέλιος λίθος ― themélios líthos ― foundation stone
- (medicine) stone, calculus
- (archaeology) stone
- Εποχή του Λίθου ― Epochí tou Líthou ― Stone Age
Declension[edit]
declension of λίθος
Related terms[edit]
- ακρογωνιαίος λίθος m (akrogoniaíos líthos, “cornerstone”)
- απολίθωμα n (apolíthoma, “fossil”)
- λιθογραφία f (lithografía, “lithograph, lithography”)
- λιθόστρωτο n (lithóstroto, “cobblestone”)
- λιθόσφαιρα f (lithósfaira, “lithosphere”)
- μονόλιθος m (monólithos)
Coordinate terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
λίθος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- λίθος in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
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