λιμός

See also: λοιμός and λιμό

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, though probably connected to and from the same family of words as λοιμός (loimós, “plague”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /liː.mós/ → /liˈmos/ → /liˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /liː.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /liˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈmos/

Noun

λῑμός • (līmós) m or f (genitive λῑμοῦ); second declension

1. famine, hunger, starvation

   Synonym: πεῖνα (peîna)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ / ἡ λῑμός; τοῦ / τῆς λῑμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ λῑμός ho / hē līmós	τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ	οἱ / αἱ λῑμοί hoi / hai līmoí
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς λῑμοῦ toû / tês līmoû	τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn	τῶν λῑμῶν tôn līmôn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ λῑμῷ tōî / tēî līmōî	τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn	τοῖς / ταῖς λῑμοῖς toîs / taîs līmoîs
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν λῑμόν tòn / tḕn līmón	τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς λῑμούς toùs / tā̀s līmoús
Vocative	λῑμέ līmé	λῑμώ līmṓ	λῑμοί līmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)
• βουλῑμῐ́ᾱσῐς (boulīmĭ́āsĭs)
• βουλῑμῐᾰ́ω (boulīmĭắō)
• βουλῑμῐῶ (boulīmĭô)
• βουλῑμῐώδης (boulīmĭṓdēs)
• βούλῑμος (boúlīmos)
• βουλῑμώδης (boulīmṓdēs)
• λῑμαίνω (līmaínō)
• λῑμᾰλέος (līmăléos)
• λῑμηρός (līmērós)
• λῑμοκτονέω (līmoktonéō)
• λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ (līmoktonĭ́ā)
• λῑμοκτόνος (līmoktónos)
• Λῑμός (Līmós)
• λῑμώδης (līmṓdēs)
• λῑ́μωξῐς (lī́mōxĭs)
• λῑμώσσω (līmṓssō)
• λῑμώττω (līmṓttō)
• πούλῑμος (poúlīmos)

Descendants

• → Greek: λιμός (limós) (learned)
• → Oscan: 𐌋𐌉𐌌𐌖 (limu, “hunger”)

Further reading

• “λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λιμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• λιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “λιμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3042 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.
  • deprivation idem, page 213.
  • famine idem, page 305.
  • hunger idem, page 410.
  • pang idem, page 591.
  • privation idem, page 642.
  • starvation idem, page 812.
• λιμός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λιμός (limós, “hunger, famine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈmos/
• Hyphenation: λι‧μός
• Homophone: λοιμός (loimós, “epidemic”)

Noun

λιμός • (limós) m (plural λιμοί)

1. famine, starvation

Declension

Declension of λιμός

	singular	plural
nominative	λιμός (limós)	λιμοί (limoí)
genitive	λιμού (limoú)	λιμών (limón)
accusative	λιμό (limó)	λιμούς (limoús)
vocative	λιμέ (limé)	λιμοί (limoí)

Synonyms

• πείνα f (peína, “hunger”)

See also

• λιμό n (limó, “a lower rank playing card”)