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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

  • φειδόμενοσ γὰρ καὶ βουλόμενοσ τούτου μηδὲν δαπανᾶσθαι, λήροισ ἀναδῶν τοὺσ νικῶντασ τὸν Πλοῦτον ἐᾷ παρ’ ἑαυτῷ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:39)
  • βρενθείου ὁ δὲ μύρου μνημονεύει Φερεκράτησ ἐν Λήροισ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 421)
  • "τήγανον δέ, ὦ βέλτιστε, εἴρηκεν ἐν μὲν Λήροισ Φερεκράτησ οὕτωσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 143)
  • Φερεκράτησ δ’ ἐν Λήροισ ’ἀργυροῦν κύαθον ὠνόμασε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 23 1:8)
  • Φερεκράτησ Λήροισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 48 3:3)

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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