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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λέχομαι (lékhomai, “I lay”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.kʰɔ̌ː/ → /leˈxo/ → /leˈxo/
Noun
λεχώ • (lekhṓ) f (genitive λεχόος or λεχοῦς); third declension
- a woman in childbed, or one who has just given birth
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “λεχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεχώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεχώ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.