Lesbos

See also: lesbos

English

Alternative forms

• Lesvos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bɒs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.boʊs/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Lesbos

1. An island of Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

Synonyms

• Mytilene

Related terms

• lesbian
• lesbic

Translations

island

• Arabic: لسبوس (lisbūs), لزبوس (lizbūs)
• Armenian: Լեսբոս (hy) (Lesbos)
• Catalan: Lesbos f
• Corsican: Lesbu f
• Czech: Lesbos (cs)
• Dutch: Lesbos
• Esperanto: Lesbo, Mitileno
• Finnish: Lesbos (fi)
• French: Lesbos (fr) f
• Georgian: ლესბოსი (lesbosi)
• German: Lesbos (de) n
• Greek: Λέσβος (el) (Lésvos)

  Ancient Greek: Λέσβος f (Lésbos)

• Hittite: 𒌷𒆷𒊍𒉺 (^URUla-az-pa)
• Hungarian: Leszbosz
• Italian: Lesbo f
• Latin: Lesbos f
• Marathi: लेस्बोस (lesbos)
• Polish: Lesbos (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lesbos (pt) f
• Romanian: Lesbos n
• Russian: Ле́сбос (ru) m (Lésbos)
• Sardinian: Lesbos f
• Sicilian: Lesbu
• Spanish: Lesbos
• Turkish: Midilli (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مدللی (Midilli)

See also

• Lesbos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bloses, Sobels, sobels

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Lesvos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Proper noun

Lesbos f

1. Lesbos (an island of Greece, in the northeastern Aegean Sea).

   Synonyms: Metolí, Metel·lí

Related terms

• lesbi
• lesbià
• lesbiana
• lèsbic

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛzbos]
• Hyphenation: Le‧s‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos m inan (relational adjective lesboský)

1. Lesbos

Declension

Declension of Lesbos (sg-only hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular
nominative	Lesbos
genitive	Lesbu
dative	Lesbu
accusative	Lesbos
vocative	Lesbe
locative	Lesbu
instrumental	Lesbem

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lesbus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Proper noun

Lesbos f sg (genitive Lesbī); second declension

1. Lesbos

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Lesbos
genitive	Lesbī
dative	Lesbō
accusative	Lesbon
ablative	Lesbō
vocative	Lesbe
locative	Lesbī

Related terms

• Lesbia
• Lesbiacus
• Lesbiās
• Lesbis
• Lesbium
• Lesbius
• Lesbōus

References

• “Lesbos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Lesbos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos)lbor.

Polish Lesbos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bɔs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛzbɔs
• Syllabification: Les‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos f (indeclinable)

1. Lesbos (an island and regional unit of the North Aegean region, Greece)

Derived terms

adjective

• lesbejski

nouns

• Lesbijczyk
• Lesbijka

Related terms

adjective

• lesbijski

nouns

• lesba
• lesbianizm
• lesbijka
• lesbijstwo
• lesbizm

Further reading

• “Lesbos”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛʒ.buʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛz.bos/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛʒ.buʃ/ [ˈlɛʒ.βuʃ]

• Hyphenation: Les‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos ?

1. Lesbos (an island and regional unit of the North Aegean region, Greece)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlesbos/ [ˈlez.β̞os]
• Rhymes: -esbos
• Syllabification: Les‧bos

Proper noun

Lesbos ?

1. Lesbos (an island of Greece)

Related terms

• lesbio