λωτός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from a Semitic source common to Hebrew לוֹט (lōṭ, “myrrh”, literally “covering, envelope”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lɔː.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /loˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /loˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /loˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /loˈtos/
Noun
λωτός • (lōtós) m (genitive λωτοῦ); second declension
- name of various fodder plants:
- white lotus (Nymphaea lotus)
- nettle tree (Celtis australis)
- jujube (Ziziphus lotus)
- (poetical) flute
- (music) pipe inserted in the nabla
- (medicine) tube or stalk of vaginal speculum
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λωτός ho lōtós |
τὼ λωτώ tṑ lōtṓ |
οἱ λωτοί hoi lōtoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λωτοῦ toû lōtoû |
τοῖν λωτοῖν toîn lōtoîn |
τῶν λωτῶν tôn lōtôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λωτῷ tôi lōtôi |
τοῖν λωτοῖν toîn lōtoîn |
τοῖς λωτοῖς toîs lōtoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λωτόν tòn lōtón |
τὼ λωτώ tṑ lōtṓ |
τοὺς λωτούς toùs lōtoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λωτέ lōté |
λωτώ lōtṓ |
λωτοί lōtoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “λωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).
Pronunciation
Noun
λωτός • (lotós) m (plural λωτοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | λωτός (lotós) | λωτοί (lotoí) |
| genitive | λωτού (lotoú) | λωτών (lotón) |
| accusative | λωτό (lotó) | λωτούς (lotoús) |
| vocative | λωτέ (loté) | λωτοί (lotoí) |
Further reading
λωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
