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λᾶας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λᾶας λᾶου

Structure: λα (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a gen. la/ou in Soph. as if la=as was of first decl.

Sense

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αὖτισ ἔπειτα πέδονδε κυλίνδετο λᾶασ ἀναιδήσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2038)
  • ὅθεν καὶ λαοὶ μεταφορικῶσ ὠνομάσθησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λᾶασ ὁ λίθοσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 7 2:10)
  • ἐν πᾶσι δὲ τῷ ἐνέργειαν ποιεῖν εὐδοκιμεῖ, οἱο͂ν ἐν τοῖσδε, αὖτισ ἐπὶ δάπεδόνδε κυλίνδετο λᾶασ ἀναιδήσ, καὶ ἔπτατ’ ὀιστόσ, καὶ ἐπιπτέσθαι μενεαίνων, καὶ ἐν γαίῃ ἵσταντο λιλαιόμενα χροὸσ ἆσαι, καὶ αἰχμὴ δὲ στέρνοιο διέσσυτο μαιμώωσα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 11 3:2)
  • εἰ καὶ μικρὸσ ἰδεῖν καὶ ἐπ’ οὔδεοσ, ὦ παροδῖτα, λᾶασ ὁ τυμβίτησ ἄμμιν ἐπικρέμαται, αἰνοίησ, ὤνθρωπε, Φιλαινίδα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1981)
  • εἰσ τὸν πάντων αὐτῶν τάφον λᾶασ ὁ μὲν γενέτην τε καὶ υἱέα κυδήεντασ κεύθω Γρηγορίουσ, εἷσ λίθοσ ἶσα φάη, ἀμφοτέρουσ ἱερῆασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 771)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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