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λήιτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λήιτον λήιτου

Structure: ληιτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lao/s, lew/s

Sense

  1. the town-hall or council-room, =

Declension

Second 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

  • ὃσ ἂν ᾖ τοῦ γένεοσ τούτου πρεσβύτατοσ, τούτῳ ἐπιτάξαντεσ ἔργεσθαι τοῦ ληίτου αὐτοὶ φυλακὰσ ἔχουσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 197 3:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ Δήμητροσ ἐπίκλησιν Ἐλευσινίασ ἱερὸν ἐν Πλαταιαῖσ καὶ Ληίτου μνῆμα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. the town-hall or council-room

Related

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

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