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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative λεκτός λεκτή λεκτόν
Genitive λεκτοῦ λεκτῆς λεκτοῦ
Dative λεκτῷ λεκτῇ λεκτῷ
Accusative λεκτόν λεκτήν λεκτόν
Vocative λεκτέ λεκτή λεκτόν
DualN/A/V λεκτώ λεκτᾱ́ λεκτώ
G/D λεκτοῖν λεκταῖν λεκτοῖν
PluralNominative λεκτοί λεκταί λεκτά
Genitive λεκτῶν λεκτῶν λεκτῶν
Dative λεκτοῖς λεκταῖς λεκτοῖς
Accusative λεκτούς λεκτᾱ́ς λεκτά
Vocative λεκτοί λεκταί λεκτά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λεκτός λεκτοῦ λεκτότερος λεκτοτεροῦ λεκτότατος λεκτοτατοῦ
Adverb λεκτώς λεκτότερον λεκτότατα

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

  • καὶ πείσασ τάδε, λεκτοὺσ ἀθροίσασ δεῦρ’ Ἀθηναίων κόρουσ ἥξω· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, iambic 1:14)
  • λεκτοί τ’ Ἀχαιῶν ἔκκριτοι νεανίαι, σκίρτημα μόσχου σῆσ καθέξοντεσ χεροῖν, ἕσποντο. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:5)
  • λέγει μέγαν τιν’ ὄλβον οὔτε λεκτὸν οὔτε πιστόν· (Aristophanes, Birds, Choral, lyric10)
  • "ἀποστεροῦσι προσηγορίασ, τὸ κενὸν τὸν χρόνον τὸν τόπον, ἁπλῶσ τὸ τῶν λεκτῶν γένοσ, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τἀληθῆ πάντ’ ἔνεστι· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1519)
  • γὰρ ἅπτεται τῶν κυριωτάτων καὶ μεγίστων, ἐν πράγμασιν ἔχοντα τὴν ἀπάτην, οὐ περὶ φωνάσ τινασ οὐδὲ λεκτῶν σύνταξιν οὐδ’ ὀνομάτων συνήθειαν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 22 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. gathered

  2. capable of being spoken

Related

Similar forms

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

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