λοιμός

See also: λιμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compare λύμη (lúmē), λύμα (lúma), λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai)

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

λοιμός • (loimós) m (genitive λοιμοῦ); second declension

1. plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder
   1. (of person) a plague, a pest
2. (as adjective) pestilent

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λοιμός; τοῦ λοιμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λοιμός ho loimós	τὼ λοιμώ tṑ loimṓ	οἱ λοιμοί hoi loimoí
Genitive	τοῦ λοιμοῦ toû loimoû	τοῖν λοιμοῖν toîn loimoîn	τῶν λοιμῶν tôn loimôn
Dative	τῷ λοιμῷ tôi loimôi	τοῖν λοιμοῖν toîn loimoîn	τοῖς λοιμοῖς toîs loimoîs
Accusative	τὸν λοιμόν tòn loimón	τὼ λοιμώ tṑ loimṓ	τοὺς λοιμούς toùs loimoús
Vocative	λοιμέ loimé	λοιμώ loimṓ	λοιμοί loimoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: λοιμός (loimós)

Further reading

• “λοιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λοιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λοιμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λοιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• λοιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3061 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.
  • contagion idem, page 166.
  • disease idem, page 232.
  • epidemic idem, page 279.
  • infectious disease idem, page 437.
  • murrain idem, page 547.
  • pest idem, page 609.
  • pestilence idem, page 609.
  • plague idem, page 616.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • sickness idem, page 772.

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Greek

Etymology

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈmos/
• Hyphenation: λοι‧μός
• Homophone: λομός (lomós) ("starvation")

Noun

λοιμός • (loimós) m (plural λοιμοί)

1. (medicine) epidemic, plague

Declension

Declension of λοιμός

	singular	plural
nominative	λοιμός •	λοιμοί •
genitive	λοιμού •	λοιμών •
accusative	λοιμό •	λοιμούς •
vocative	λοιμέ •	λοιμοί •

Related terms

• λοίμωξη m (loímoxi, “infection”)
• λοιμώδης (loimódis, “infectious”)
• λοιμοκαθαρτήριο n (loimokathartírio, “quarantine”)

Further reading

• λοιμός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el