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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Because of the suffix and the meaning, the word is clearly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lé.ki.tʰos/ → /ˈle.ci.θos/ → /ˈle.ci.θos/
Noun
λέκῐθος • (lékithos) m or f (genitive λεκῐ́θου); second declension
- (masculine) gruel of pulse or cereals
- (feminine) yolk of an egg
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ λέκῐθος
ho, hē lékithos
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τὼ λεκῐ́θω
tṑ lekíthō
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οἱ, αἱ λέκῐθοι
hoi, hai lékithoi
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τοῦ, τῆς λεκῐ́θου
toû, tês lekíthou
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τοῖν λεκῐ́θοιν
toîn lekíthoin
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τῶν λεκῐ́θων
tôn lekíthōn
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τῷ, τῇ λεκῐ́θῳ
tôi, têi lekíthōi
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τοῖν λεκῐ́θοιν
toîn lekíthoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς λεκῐ́θοις
toîs, taîs lekíthois
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τὸν, τὴν λέκῐθον
tòn, tḕn lékithon
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τὼ λεκῐ́θω
tṑ lekíthō
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λεκῐ́θους
toùs, tā̀s lekíthous
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λέκῐθε
lékithe
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λεκῐ́θω
lekíthō
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λέκῐθοι
lékithoi
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Derived terms
Descendants
- →⇒ French: lécithine (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “λέκιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέκιθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέκιθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN