λάμος

See also: Λάμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from the same Pre-Greek root of λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”) and λαμυρός (lamurós, “full of abysses; gluttonous”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.mos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mos/

Noun

λάμος • (lámos)

according to a scholium of Horace, this word means: ingluvies (“crop of birds”).

Further reading

“λάμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press