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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

  • ἀλλ’ ὁρ́α μὴ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμῖν τὰ κομψὰ λῆροσ ᾖ καὶ παιδιὰ ἄλλωσ καὶ διατριβαὶ ἀργοῦσι καὶ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἐθέλουσι τοῖσ νεανίσκοισ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 32:3)
  • εἴσῃ γὰρ μετ’ ὀλίγον ^ εἰ λῆροσ εἶναί σοι δόξει τὰ λεχθησόμενα. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 7:2)
  • λῆροσ γὰρ ἄλλωσ τὸ τοιοῦτον. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 6:3)
  • εἰ μὲν καὶ ταῦτα λῆρόσ ἐστιν ἃ εἴρηκασ, εἰσόμεθα μικρὸν ὕστερον ἐγὼ δέ, ἐπείπερ ἱκανὰ φὴσ εἶναι τὰ κατηγορημένα, πειράσομαι ὡσ ἂν οἱο͂́σ τε ὦ διαλύσασθαι τὰ ἐγκλήματα. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 7:1)
  • "ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀναγίγνωσκε τὰ παλαιὰ μὲν μὴ σύ γε, μηδὲ εἴ τι ὁ λῆροσ Ἰσοκράτησ ἢ ὁ χαρίτων ἄμοιροσ Δημοσθένησ ἢ ὁ ψυχρὸσ Πλάτων, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ τῶν ὀλίγον πρὸ ἡμῶν λόγουσ καὶ ἅσ φασι ταύτασ μελέτασ, ὡσ ἔχῃσ ἀπ’ ἐκείνων ἐπισιτισάμενοσ ἐν καιρῷ καταχρῆσθαι καθάπερ ἐκ ταμιείου προαιρῶν. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:28)

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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