Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λεκτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεκτός λεκτή λεκτόν

Structure: λεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. gathered, chosen, picked out
  2. capable of being spoken, to be spoken

Examples

  • λεκτοί τ’ Ἀχαιῶν ἔκκριτοι νεανίαι, σκίρτημα μόσχου σῆσ καθέξοντεσ χεροῖν, ἕσποντο. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:5)
  • οἱ μὲν οὐδέπω μακρὰν πτέσθαι σθένοντεσ, οἱ δὲ σὺν γήρᾳ βαρεῖσ, ἱερῆσ, ἐγὼ μὲν Ζηνόσ, οἵδε τ’ ᾐθέων λεκτοί· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. gathered

  2. capable of being spoken

Related

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

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