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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

  • ἤδη γάρ σφιν ἔκειτο μέγασ λῖσ, ἀμφὶ δὲ κάπροι δοιοί, ἀπουράμενοι ψυχάσ, κατὰ δέ σφι κελαινὸν αἷμ’ ἀπελείβετ’ ἔραζ’· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 16:6)
  • ἀλλά τε καὶ τῶν αἰεὶ ἀφαιρεῖται λὶσ πέτρη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 82 3:4)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὁπότ’ ἠυγένειοσ ἀπόπροθι λῖσ ἐσακούσασ, νεβροῦ φθεγξαμένασ τισ ἐν οὔρεσιν ὠμοφάγοσ λῖσ ἐξ εὐνᾶσ ἔσπευσεν ἑτοιμοτάταν ἐπὶ δαῖτα· (Theocritus, Idylls, 22)
  • πάντασ γὰρ πισῆασ ἐπικλύζων ποταμὸσ ὣσ λῖσ ἄμοτον κεράιζε, μάλιστα δὲ Βεμβιναίουσ, οἵ ἑθεν ἀγχόμοροι ναῖον πασχόντεσ ἄτλητα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 86)

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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