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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

  • 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

Related

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

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