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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

  • λιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 57 2:6)
  • λιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 57 2:9)
  • λιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 57 3:3)
  • ,1 λιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 57 3:6)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡμφιτρύωνοσ ὁ χαλκεοκάρδιοσ υἱόσ, ὃσ τὸν λῖν ὑπέμεινε τὸν ἄγριον, ἤρατο παιδόσ, τῶ χαρίεντοσ Ὕλα, τῶ τὰν πλοκαμῖδα φορεῦντοσ, καί νιν πάντ’ ἐδίδαξε πατὴρ ὡσεὶ φίλον υἱέα, ὅσσα μαθὼν ἀγαθὸσ καὶ ἀοίδιμοσ αὐτὸσ ἔγεντο· (Theocritus, Idylls, 3)

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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