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ληρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληρός ληροῦ

Structure: ληρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a poor trinket

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ληρός ληρώ ληροί
Genitive ληροῦ ληροῖν ληρῶν
Dative ληρῷ ληροῖν ληροῖς
Accusative ληρόν ληρώ ληρούς
Vocative ληρέ ληρώ ληροί

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

  • ἀγάλλονται γὰρ τῷ ὀνείδει καὶ οἰόνται ἀκούειν ὅτι οὐ λῆροί εἰσι, γῆσ ἄλλωσ ἄχθη, ἀλλ’ ἄνδρεσ οἱούσ δεῖ ἐν πόλει τοὺσ σωθησομένουσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 210:2)

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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