λύχνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *luk-s-nos, from *lewk-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lý.kʰnos/ → /ˈly.xnos/ → /ˈli.xnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lý.kʰnos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.kʰnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.xnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.xnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.xnos/

Noun

λῠ́χνος • (lŭ́khnos) m (genitive λῠ́χνου); second declension

1. lamp

Declension

Second declension of ὁ λῠ́χνος; τοῦ λῠ́χνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λῠ́χνος ho lŭ́khnos	τὼ λῠ́χνω tṑ lŭ́khnō	οἱ λῠ́χνοι / τᾰ̀ λῠ́χνᾰ hoi lŭ́khnoi / tằ lŭ́khnă
Genitive	τοῦ λῠ́χνου toû lŭ́khnou	τοῖν λῠ́χνοιν toîn lŭ́khnoin	τῶν λῠ́χνων tôn lŭ́khnōn
Dative	τῷ λῠ́χνῳ tōî lŭ́khnōi	τοῖν λῠ́χνοιν toîn lŭ́khnoin	τοῖς λῠ́χνοις toîs lŭ́khnois
Accusative	τὸν λῠ́χνον tòn lŭ́khnon	τὼ λῠ́χνω tṑ lŭ́khnō	τοὺς λῠ́χνους / τᾰ̀ λῠ́χνᾰ toùs lŭ́khnous / tằ lŭ́khnă
Vocative	λῠ́χνε lŭ́khne	λῠ́χνω lŭ́khnō	λῠ́χνοι / λῠ́χνᾰ lŭ́khnoi / lŭ́khnă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐλλύχνιον (ellúkhnion)
• ἐλλύχνιος (ellúkhnios)
• λυχνίς (lukhnís)
• λυχνῖτις (lukhnîtis)
• λυχνοκαΐα (lukhnokaḯa)
• λυχνοῦχος (lukhnoûkhos)

Further reading

• “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λύχνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λύχνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• λύχνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3088 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.
  • lamp idem, page 474.
  • light idem, page 490.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λῠ́χνος (lŭ́khnos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.xnos/

Noun

λύχνος • (lýchnos) m (plural λύχνοι)

1. oil lamp

Declension

Declension of λύχνος

	singular	plural
nominative	λύχνος (lýchnos)	λύχνοι (lýchnoi)
genitive	λύχνου (lýchnou)	λύχνων (lýchnon)
accusative	λύχνο (lýchno)	λύχνους (lýchnous)
vocative	λύχνε (lýchne)	λύχνοι (lýchnoi)

Derived terms

• λυχνάρι n (lychnári, “oil or fat lamp”)

References

• λύχνος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language