λιμός
See also: λοιμός and λιμό
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain, though probably connected to and from the same family of words as λοιμός (loimós, “plague”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /liː.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /liˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /liˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /liˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /liˈmos/
Noun
λῑμός • (līmós) m or f (genitive λῑμοῦ); second declension
- famine, hunger, starvation
- Synonym: πεῖνα (peîna)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ / ἡ λῑμός ho / hē līmós |
τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ |
οἱ / αἱ λῑμοί hoi / hai līmoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ / τῆς λῑμοῦ toû / tês līmoû |
τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn |
τῶν λῑμῶν tôn līmôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ / τῇ λῑμῷ tōî / tēî līmōî |
τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn |
τοῖς / ταῖς λῑμοῖς toîs / taîs līmoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν / τὴν λῑμόν tòn / tḕn līmón |
τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ |
τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς λῑμούς toùs / tā̀s līmoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῑμέ līmé |
λῑμώ līmṓ |
λῑμοί līmoí | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)
- βουλῑμῐ́ᾱσῐς (boulīmĭ́āsĭs)
- βουλῑμῐᾰ́ω (boulīmĭắō)
- βουλῑμῐῶ (boulīmĭô)
- βουλῑμῐώδης (boulīmĭṓdēs)
- βούλῑμος (boúlīmos)
- βουλῑμώδης (boulīmṓdēs)
- λῑμαίνω (līmaínō)
- λῑμᾰλέος (līmăléos)
- λῑμηρός (līmērós)
- λῑμοκτονέω (līmoktonéō)
- λῑμοκτονῐ́ᾱ (līmoktonĭ́ā)
- λῑμοκτόνος (līmoktónos)
- Λῑμός (Līmós)
- λῑμώδης (līmṓdēs)
- λῑ́μωξῐς (lī́mōxĭs)
- λῑμώσσω (līmṓssō)
- λῑμώττω (līmṓttō)
- πούλῑμος (poúlīmos)
Descendants
- → Greek: λιμός (limós) (learned)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λῑμός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 863
Further reading
- “λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λιμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λιμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3042 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- deprivation idem, page 213.
- famine idem, page 305.
- hunger idem, page 410.
- pang idem, page 591.
- privation idem, page 642.
- starvation idem, page 812.
- λιμός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λιμός (limós, “hunger, famine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈmos/
- Hyphenation: λι‧μός
- Homophone: λοιμός (loimós, “epidemic”)
Noun
λιμός • (limós) m (plural λιμοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | λιμός (limós) | λιμοί (limoí) |
| genitive | λιμού (limoú) | λιμών (limón) |
| accusative | λιμό (limó) | λιμούς (limoús) |
| vocative | λιμέ (limé) | λιμοί (limoí) |
Synonyms
- πείνα f (peína, “hunger”)
See also
- λιμό n (limó, “a lower rank playing card”)