λείριον

Ancient Greek

Borrowed from an eastern Mediterranean substrate language. One likely candidate is the ancestor of Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri) (compare Sahidic Coptic ϩⲣⲏⲣⲉ (hrēre)). Similar words in other languages, probably from the same source, include Albanian lule (“flower”), Hittite (alil-, “flower”).^[1]

λείριον • (leírion) n (genitive λειρίου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λείριον tò leírion	τὼ λειρίω tṑ leiríō	τᾰ̀ λείριᾰ tà leíria
Genitive	τοῦ λειρίου toû leiríou	τοῖν λειρίοιν toîn leiríoin	τῶν λειρίων tôn leiríōn
Dative	τῷ λειρίῳ tôi leiríōi	τοῖν λειρίοιν toîn leiríoin	τοῖς λειρίοις toîs leiríois
Accusative	τὸ λείριον tò leírion	τὼ λειρίω tṑ leiríō	τᾰ̀ λείριᾰ tà leíria
Vocative	λείριον leírion	λειρίω leiríō	λείριᾰ leíria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Greek: λειρί (leirí, “cock's comb”)
→ Latin: līlium (see there for further descendants)
- → Translingual: Lilium
→ Serbo-Croatian: lijȇr

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λείριον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 845