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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of λίσσομαι (líssomai) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.tɛ̌ː/ → /liˈti/ → /liˈti/
Noun
λῐτή • (litḗ) f (genitive λῐτῆς); first declension
- prayer, entreaty
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “λιτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λιτή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λιτή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λιτή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- λιτή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “litany”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.