λίθος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Has been compared to λεῖος (leîos, “smooth”), λιτός (litós, “simple, plain”), Latin laedō (“to strike, hurt”), and Lithuanian slidùs. Beekes argues for a Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. origin, noting that words for "stone" are often taken from a substrate language.
Pronunciation
- (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
λῐ́θος • (líthos) m (genitive λῐ́θου); second declension
- a stone
- stone as a substance
Usage notes
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
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λῐ́θος ho líthos |
τὼ λῐ́θω tṑ líthō |
οἱ λῐ́θοι hoi líthoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λῐ́θου toû líthou |
τοῖν λῐ́θοιν toîn líthoin |
τῶν λῐ́θων tôn líthōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λῐ́θῳ tôi líthōi |
τοῖν λῐ́θοιν toîn líthoin |
τοῖς λῐ́θοις toîs líthois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λῐ́θον tòn líthon |
τὼ λῐ́θω tṑ líthō |
τοὺς λῐ́θους toùs líthous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῐ́θε líthe |
λῐ́θω líthō |
λῐ́θοι líthoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants of λίθος in other languages
- English: litharge
- English: lithograph, lithography
- English: Mesolithic
- English: regolith
- French: litharge
- New Latin: lithium
- English: lithium
Further reading
- “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
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos).
Noun
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
declension of λίθος
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- ακρογωνιαίος λίθος m (akrogoniaíos líthos, “cornerstone”)
- λιθόσφαιρα f (lithósfaira, “lithosphere”)
- λιθογραφία f (lithografía, “lithograph, lithography”)
- λιθόστρωτο n (lithóstroto, “cobblestone”)
Categories:
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek masculine nouns
- Greek terms with usage examples
- el:Medicine
- el:Archaeology
- Greek nouns declining like 'δρόμος'