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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λεχ- (lekh-, “to lie down”) + -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *légʰtrom. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *lehtrą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lék.tron/ → /ˈlek.tron/ → /ˈlek.tron/
Noun
λέκτρον • (léktron) n (genitive λέκτρου); second declension
- bed
- Synonym: κλίνη (klínē)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “λέκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέκτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λέκτρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λέκτρον 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
- λέκτρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λέκτρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.