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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

  • καίτοι τί ταῦτα ληρῶ; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 22:3)
  • χαῖρε, Σώπολι, καὶ τουτονὶ Λεξιφάνην παραλαβὼν ἑταῖρον, ὡσ οἶσθα, ἡμῖν ὄντα, λήρῳ δὲ νῦν καὶ ξένῃ περὶ τὴν φωνὴν νόσῳ ξυνόντα καὶ κινδυνεύοντα ἤδη τελέωσ ἀπολωλέναι σῶσον ἑνὶ γέ τῳ τρόπῳ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 18:3)
  • οὐχ ἥδιστον, ὦ Μίκυλλε, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπεὶ συνεκληρώθησ τῷ λήρῳ ἐκείνῳ γέροντι. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 11:9)
  • καίτοι τί ταῦτα ληρῶ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 16:7)
  • ληρῶ, τὰ χρήματ’ ἀπολαβεῖν εἰ βούλομαι; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:16)

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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