λειμών

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps related to λίμνη (límnē, “marshy lake”) and λιμήν (limḗn) via Proto-Indo-European *(s)leym- (see *léymō (“lake”)). Has been compared to Latin līmus in the "mud" and "oblique" senses, līmen (“threshold”), Latvian leja (“dale, valley”), as well as λείβω (leíbō, “to pour”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

λειμών • (leimṓn) m (genitive λειμῶνος); third declension

  1. meadow
    Synonym: πῖσος (pîsos)
  2. (vulgar) vagina

Declension

Third declension of ὁ λειμών; τοῦ λειμῶνος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ λειμών
ho leimṓn 		τὼ λειμῶνε
tṑ leimône 		οἱ λειμῶνες
hoi leimônes
Genitive τοῦ λειμῶνος
toû leimônos 		τοῖν λειμώνοιν
toîn leimṓnoin 		τῶν λειμώνων
tôn leimṓnōn
Dative τῷ λειμῶνῐ
tôi leimôni 		τοῖν λειμώνοιν
toîn leimṓnoin 		τοῖς λειμῶσῐ / λειμῶσῐν
toîs leimôsi(n)
Accusative τὸν λειμῶνᾰ
tòn leimôna 		τὼ λειμῶνε
tṑ leimône 		τοὺς λειμῶνᾰς
toùs leimônas
Vocative λειμών
leimṓn 		λειμῶνε
leimône 		λειμῶνες
leimônes
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References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λειμών, -ῶνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 843-4

Further reading

  • “λειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “λειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “λειμών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • λειμών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • λειμών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “λειμών”, 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.
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