λαγώς
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *λαγοωυσός (*lagoōusós, “with flabby ears”), from *λαγο- (*lago-) (possibly the same root as English slack) and οὖς (oûs).[1] Typologically compare Ossetian тӕрхъус (tærqus, “hare”, literally “long-ear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /la.ɡɔ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /laˈɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /laˈɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /laˈɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /laˈɣos/
Noun
[edit]λᾰγώς • (lăgṓs) m (genitive λᾰγώ); second declension
- hare
- coward
- sea hare (gastropod of the genus Aplysia)
- (astronomy) Lepus, a winter constellation
- kind of bandage
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λᾰγώς ho lăgṓs |
τὼ λᾰγώ tṑ lăgṓ |
οἱ λᾰγῴ hoi lăgṓi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λᾰγώ toû lăgṓ |
τοῖν λᾰγῴν toîn lăgṓin |
τῶν λᾰγών tôn lăgṓn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λᾰγῴ tôi lăgṓi |
τοῖν λᾰγῴν toîn lăgṓin |
τοῖς λᾰγῴς toîs lăgṓis | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λᾰγώ / λᾰγών tòn lăgṓ(n) |
τὼ λᾰγώ tṑ lăgṓ |
τοὺς λᾰγώς toùs lăgṓs | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰγώς lăgṓs |
λᾰγώ lăgṓ |
λᾰγῴ lăgṓi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- λάγινος (láginos)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: λαγός (lagós)
- Persian: لاغوس (lâğus) (obsolete)
- English: lagomorph
- Translingual: Lagos, Lagurus
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 821–822
Further reading
[edit]- “λαγώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λαγώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Astronomy
- Ancient Greek Attic-declension masculine nouns
- grc:Fear
- grc:Lagomorphs
- grc:Gastropods