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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ινος (-inos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lí.tʰi.nos/ → /ˈli.θi.nos/ → /ˈli.θi.nos/
Adjective
λίθῐνος • (líthinos) m (feminine λῐθίνη, neuter λίθῐνον); first/second declension
- of stone
50 CE – 100 CE,
The Gospel of John 2:6:
- ἦσαν δὲ ἐκεῖ ὑδρίαι λίθιναι ἓξ κείμεναι, κατὰ τὸν καθαρισμὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων, χωροῦσαι ἀνὰ μετρητὰς δύο ἢ τρεῖς.
- êsan dè ekeî hudríai líthinai hèx keímenai, katà tòn katharismòn tôn Ioudaíōn, khōroûsai anà metrētàs dúo ḕ treîs.
- Translation by KJV
- And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle,
Second Epistle to the Corinthians 3:3:
- φανερούμενοι ὅτι ἐστὲ ἐπιστολὴ Χριστοῦ διακονηθεῖσα ὑφ’ ἡμῶν, ἐγγεγραμμένη οὐ μέλανι, ἀλλὰ Πνεύματι Θεοῦ ζῶντος, οὐκ ἐν πλαξὶ λιθίναις, ἀλλὰ ἐν πλαξὶ καρδίαις σαρκίναις.
- phaneroúmenoi hóti estè epistolḕ Khristoû diakonētheîsa huph’ hēmôn, engegramménē ou mélani, allà Pneúmati Theoû zôntos, ouk en plaxì lithínais, allà en plaxì kardíais sarkínais.
- Translation by KJV
- Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
New Testament,
Revelation 9:20:
- καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἳ οὐκ ἀπεκτάνθησαν ἐν ταῖς πληγαῖς ταύταις, οὐ μετενόησαν ἐκ τῶν ἔργων τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν, ἵνα μὴ προσκυνήσωσι τὰ δαιμόνια καὶ τὰ εἴδωλα τὰ χρυσᾶ καὶ τὰ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ τὰ χαλκᾶ καὶ τὰ λίθινα καὶ τὰ ξύλινα, ἃ οὔτε βλέπειν δύναται οὔτε ἀκούειν οὔτε περιπατεῖν,
- kaì hoi loipoì tôn anthrṓpōn, hoì ouk apektánthēsan en taîs plēgaîs taútais, ou metenóēsan ek tôn érgōn tôn kheirôn autôn, hína mḕ proskunḗsōsi tà daimónia kaì tà eídōla tà khrusâ kaì tà argurâ kaì tà khalkâ kaì tà líthina kaì tà xúlina, hà oúte blépein dúnatai oúte akoúein oúte peripateîn, […]
- Translation by KJV
- And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk,
Inflection
Further reading
- “λίθινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λίθινος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λίθινος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λίθινος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3035 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “λίθινος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Adjective
λίθινος • (líthinos) m (feminine λίθινη, neuter λίθινο)
- stone, of stone
- Λίθινη Εποχή ― Líthini Epochí ― Stone Age
Declension