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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pre-Greek. Has been connected to Old Church Slavonic лакъть (lakŭtĭ, “pot”), but the connection is problematic. Probably related in some way to Etruscan 𐌋𐌄𐌙𐌕𐌖𐌌 (leχtum, “a kind of small bottle; lekythos”) (see ληκύθιον (lēkúthion)). Could also be related to λάγυνος (lágunos) and λάγιον (lágion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛ̌ː.ky.tʰos/ → /ˈli.cy.θos/ → /ˈli.ci.θos/
Noun
λήκῠθος • (lḗkuthos) f (genitive ληκῠ́θου); second declension
- oil flask, oil bottle (lekythos)
- Synonym: τρίβανον (tríbanon)
- cosmetics case
- trope, rhetorical figure, big word
- Adam's apple
Inflection
References
- “λήκυθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λήκυθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λήκυθος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λήκυθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λήκυθος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Bell, Sinclair, Carpino, Alexandra A. (2016) A Companion to the Etruscans, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell