λεχώ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lay”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /le.kʰɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /leˈkʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /leˈxo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /leˈxo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /leˈxo/
Noun
λεχώ • (lekhṓ) f (genitive λεχόος or λεχοῦς); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λεχώ hē lekhṓ |
τὼ λεχώ tṑ lekhṓ |
αἱ λεχοί hai lekhoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λεχόος / λεχοῦς tês lekhóos / lekhoûs |
τοῖν λεχοῖν toîn lekhoîn |
τῶν λεχῶν tôn lekhôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λεχοῖ tēî lekhoî |
τοῖν λεχοῖν toîn lekhoîn |
ταῖς λεχοῖς taîs lekhoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λεχώ tḕn lekhṓ |
τὼ λεχώ tṑ lekhṓ |
τᾱ̀ς λεχούς tā̀s lekhoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λεχοῖ lekhoî |
λεχώ lekhṓ |
λεχοί lekhoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λεχώνα (lechóna)
References
- “λεχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεχώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.