Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λίς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λίς

Structure: λι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: epic for le/wn

Sense

  1. a lion

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ποῦ δὲ σοὶ λεῶν ἔξεστ’ ἀνάσσειν ὧν ὅδ’ ἤγαγ’ οἴκοθεν; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:6)
  • σκύμνοσ λέοντοσ Ἰούδα. ἐκ βλαστοῦ, υἱέ μου, ἀνέβησ. ἀναπεσὼν ἐκοιμήθησ ὡσ λέων καὶ ὡσ σκύμνοσ. τίσ ἐγερεῖ αὐτόν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:9)
  • ἰδοὺ λαὸσ ὡσ σκύμνοσ ἀναστήσεται καὶ ὡσ λέων γαυρωθήσεται. οὐ κοιμηθήσεται, ἕωσ φάγῃ θήραν, καὶ αἷμα τραυματιῶν πίεται. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 23:24)
  • κατακλιθεὶσ ἀνεπαύσατο ὡσ λέων καὶ ὡσ σκύμνοσ. τίσ ἀναστήσει αὐτόν̣ οἱ εὐλογοῦντέσ σε εὐλόγηνται, καὶ οἱ καταρώμενοί σε κεκατήρανται. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 24:9)
  • καὶ τῷ Γὰδ εἶπεν. εὐλογημένοσ ἐμπλατύνων Γάδ. ὡσ λέων ἐνεπαύσατο, συντρίψασ βραχίονα καὶ ἄρχοντα. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:20)
  • καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸσ Σαούλ. ποιμαίνων ἦν ὁ δοῦλόσ σου τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ ποιμνίῳ, καὶ ὅταν ἤρχετο ὁ λέων καὶ ἡ ἄρκοσ καὶ ἐλάμβανε πρόβατον ἐκ τῆσ ἀγέλησ, (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:14)

Synonyms

  1. a lion

Related

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

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