λῆδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Backformation from λήδανον (lḗdanon, “labdanum”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̂ː.don/ → /ˈli.ðon/ → /ˈli.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛ̂ː.don/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈle̝.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ðon/

Noun

λῆδον • (lêdon) n (genitive λήδου); second declension

1. gum rockrose (Cistus ladanifer), a shrub from which labdanum exudes

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ λῆδον; τοῦ λήδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῆδον tò lêdon	τὼ λήδω tṑ lḗdō	τᾰ̀ λῆδᾰ tà lêda
Genitive	τοῦ λήδου toû lḗdou	τοῖν λήδοιν toîn lḗdoin	τῶν λήδων tôn lḗdōn
Dative	τῷ λήδῳ tôi lḗdōi	τοῖν λήδοιν toîn lḗdoin	τοῖς λήδοις toîs lḗdois
Accusative	τὸ λῆδον tò lêdon	τὼ λήδω tṑ lḗdō	τᾰ̀ λῆδᾰ tà lêda
Vocative	λῆδον lêdon	λήδω lḗdō	λῆδᾰ lêda
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “λῆδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λῆδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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