λιμός

See also: λοιμός and λιμό

Ancient Greek

May be connected with λοιμός (loimós, “plague”).

λῑμός • (līmós) m or f (genitive λῑμοῦ); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ λῑμός ho, hē līmós	τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ	οἱ, αἱ λῑμοί hoi, hai līmoí
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς λῑμοῦ toû, tês līmoû	τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn	τῶν λῑμῶν tôn līmôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ λῑμῷ tôi, têi līmôi	τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn	τοῖς, ταῖς λῑμοῖς toîs, taîs līmoîs
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν λῑμόν tòn, tḕn līmón	τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λῑμούς toùs, tā̀s līmoús
Vocative	λῑμέ līmé	λῑμώ līmṓ	λῑμοί līmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“λιμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
λιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
λιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“λιμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3042 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.
- deprivation idem, page 213.
- famine idem, page 305.
- hunger idem, page 410.
- pang idem, page 591.
- privation idem, page 642.
- starvation idem, page 812.
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

Learnedly, borrowed from Ancient Greek λιμός (limós, “hunger, famine”).

λιμός • (limós) m (plural λιμοί)