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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly related to λεπίς (lepís), λέπω (lépō) from Proto-Indo-European *lep- (“to peel, flay”), or Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lé.pa.dnon/ → /ˈle.pa.ðnon/ → /ˈle.pa.ðnon/
Noun
λέπαδνον • (lépadnon) n (genitive λεπάδνου); second declension
- broad leather strap fastening the yoke to the neck, and joined to the girth
- (figuratively) the necessity
Inflection
Further reading
- “λέπαδνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέπαδνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λέπαδνον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λέπαδνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λέπαδνον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- λέπαδνον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Eustathii archiepiscopi Thessalonicensis Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem by Marchinus van der Valk Page 537 →ISBN