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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *lāwíts, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂wíds, from *leh₂w- (“to seize, profit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛː.ís/ → /liˈis/ → /liˈis/
Noun
ληΐς • (lēḯs) m or f (genitive ληΐδος); third declension
- booty, spoil
Declension
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References
- “ληΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ληΐς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ληΐς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ληΐς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “ληΐς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3816 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.