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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

  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ἔτι ἄκριτον καὶ ἀνώνυμοσ ἡμῖν ἡ καλὴ πόλισ ἐκείνη, λήρου πολλοῦ καὶ κορύζησ συγγραφικῆσ γέμουσα· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 31 1:4)
  • ὧν ἐστιν ὅ τε φορτικὸσ καὶ κενὸσ καὶ παιδαριώδησ ἐπιτάφιοσ καὶ τὸ τοῦ σοφιστικοῦ λήρου μεστὸν ἐγκώμιον εἰσ Παυσανίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 44 1:2)
  • ἀκούσατ’, ὦ Στύακεσ, ἔμποροι λήρου, λόγων ὑποκριτῆρεσ, οἳ μόνοι πάντα τἀν τοῖσ πίναξι πρίν τι τῷ σοφῷ δοῦναι, αὐτοὶ καταρροφεῖτε κᾆθ’ ἁλίσκεσθε ἐναντία πράσσοντεσ οἷσ τραγῳδεῖτε, παιδοπῖπαι ὄντεσ καὶ τοῦτο μόνον ἐζηλωκότεσ τὸν ἀρχηγὸν ὑμῶν τῆσ σοφίασ Ζήνωνα τὸν Φοίνικα, ὃσ οὐδέποτε γυναικὶ ἐχρήσατο, παιδικοῖσ δ’ αἰεί, ὡσ Ἀντίγονοσ ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῷ περὶ τοῦ Βίου αὐτοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 152)
  • ὄζει λήρου βεκκεσελήνου, κατά γε τοὺσ τῆσ ἀρχαίασ κωμῳδίασ ποιητάσ πῶσ γὰρ αὑτῷ ἀτενίζων ἔπλασεν; (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 9:1)

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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