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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Furnée unconvincingly compares λαῖφα (laîpha, “shield”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâi̯.pʰos/ → /ˈlɛ.ɸos/ → /ˈle.fos/
Noun
λαῖφος • (laîphos) n (genitive λαίφεος); third declension
- (poetic) shabby, tattered garment
- Synonyms: ῥάκος (rhákos), τρῦχος (trûkhos)
- piece of cloth or canvas, sail
Inflection
Further reading
- “λαῖφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαῖφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λαῖφος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λαῖφος 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