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λίς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: lis

Principal Part: λίς

Structure: λι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: epic for λέων

Sense

  1. a lion

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λίς λεί λείς
Genitive λεῶς λοῖν λεῶν
Dative λεῖ λοῖν λεσί(ν)
Accusative λίν λεί λείς
Vocative λί λεί λείς

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

  • ρων κάν ῆι φησὶ λεὶ οδω ι εἰς ωλι δ ενι λὺ υθέ ντί εν ῆς εκ ου ψη χρυ αφά ει: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 60 2:16)
  • ἀρετὰ δ ἐπίμοχθος μέν, τε]λευταθεῖσα δ ὀρθῶς ἀνδρὶ κ]αὶ εὖτε θάνῃ λεί- πει πο]λυζήλωτον εὐκλείας ἄγαλμα. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 17:2)
  • λει. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 67 4:127)

Synonyms

  1. a lion

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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