ληνός

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See also: λῆνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

λᾱνός (lānós) — Doric

Etymology

Unexplained. Perhaps a technical term of the Pre-Greek substrate.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lɛː.nós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /le̝ˈnos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈnos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈnos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈnos/

Noun

ληνός • (lēnós) f (genitive ληνοῦ); second declension

anything shaped like a tub or trough
winepress, vat where grapes are pressed
trough, for watering cattle
socket into which the mast fitted
coffin, sarcophagus
(anatomy) torcular Herophili, the confluence of sinuses
lower parts of the nose

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ ληνός; τῆς ληνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ληνός hē lēnós	τὼ ληνώ tṑ lēnṓ	αἱ ληνοί hai lēnoí
Genitive	τῆς ληνοῦ tês lēnoû	τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn	τῶν ληνῶν tôn lēnôn
Dative	τῇ ληνῷ têi lēnôi	τοῖν ληνοῖν toîn lēnoîn	ταῖς ληνοῖς taîs lēnoîs
Accusative	τὴν ληνόν tḕn lēnón	τὼ ληνώ tṑ lēnṓ	τᾱ̀ς ληνούς tā̀s lēnoús
Vocative	ληνέ lēné	ληνώ lēnṓ	ληνοί lēnoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἄληνος (álēnos)
ληνεών (lēneṓn)
ληνίδιον (lēnídion)
ληνίς (lēnís)
ληνοβάτης (lēnobátēs)
ληνοπατέω (lēnopatéō)
ληνόπιθος (lēnópithos)
ληνοποιός (lēnopoiós)
ὑπολήνιον (hupolḗnion)

Further reading

“ληνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ληνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ληνός 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

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