λιτή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of λίσσομαι (líssomai) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /li.tɛ̌ː/ → /liˈti/ → /liˈti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.tɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /liˈte̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈti/

Noun

λῐτή • (litḗ) f (genitive λῐτῆς); first declension

1. prayer, entreaty

Inflection

First declension of ἡ λῐτή; τῆς λῐτῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῐτή hē litḗ	τὼ λῐτᾱ́ tṑ litā́	αἱ λῐταί hai litaí
Genitive	τῆς λῐτῆς tês litês	τοῖν λῐταῖν toîn litaîn	τῶν λῐτῶν tôn litôn
Dative	τῇ λῐτῇ têi litêi	τοῖν λῐταῖν toîn litaîn	ταῖς λῐταῖς taîs litaîs
Accusative	τὴν λῐτήν tḕn litḗn	τὼ λῐτᾱ́ tṑ litā́	τᾱ̀ς λῐτᾱ́ς tā̀s litā́s
Vocative	λῐτή litḗ	λῐτᾱ́ litā́	λῐταί litaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Λῐταί (Litaí)

References

• “λιτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λιτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λιτή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• λιτή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• λιτή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “litany”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.