λέχος

From Proto-Indo-European *légʰos, from *legʰ-, whence also λέχομαι (lékhomai). Cognates include Russian лог (log, “cleft, valley”), Polish odłóg, and Albanian lagje.

λέχος • (lékhos) n (genitive λέχους or λέχεος); third declension

1. couch, bed
2. bier
3. marriage-bed: and generally, marriage
4. a bird's nest

• λέκτρον (léktron)
• λέχομαι (lékhomai)
• λόχος (lókhos)

• “λέχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λέχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λέχος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λέχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• λέχος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “λέχος”, 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.
  • alliance idem, page 25.
  • bed idem, page 68.
  • bride idem, page 97.
  • connect idem, page 161.
  • couch idem, page 176.
  • den idem, page 210.
  • hand idem, page 382.
  • lair idem, page 474.
  • lurking idem, page 505.
  • marriage idem, page 514.
  • marriage bed idem, page 514.
  • nest idem, page 556.
• 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