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λακίς

Language

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic Category:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΛΑΚΙΣ *lakíds, from Proto-Indo-European Category:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΛΑΚΙΣ *leh₂k- (“to tear”). Cognate with Latin lacer and lancinō.

Pronunciation

Noun

λᾰκῐ́ς • (lăkĭ́s) f (genitive λᾰκῐ́δος)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek nouns#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek oxytone terms#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek third-declension nouns#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Ancient Greek feminine nouns#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Pages with entries#ΛΑΚΙΣ Category:Pages with 1 entry#ΛΑΚΙΣ; third declension

(often in the plural) rent, rending, tatters

Declension

Third declension of ἡ λᾰκῐ́ς; τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λᾰκῐ́ς hē lăkĭ́s	τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lăkĭ́de	αἱ λᾰκῐ́δες hai lăkĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς λᾰκῐ́δος tês lăkĭ́dos	τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lăkĭ́doin	τῶν λᾰκῐ́δων tôn lăkĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ λᾰκῐ́δῐ tēî lăkĭ́dĭ	τοῖν λᾰκῐ́δοιν toîn lăkĭ́doin	ταῖς λᾰκῐ́σῐ / λᾰκῐ́σῐν taîs lăkĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν λᾰκῐ́δᾰ tḕn lăkĭ́dă	τὼ λᾰκῐ́δε tṑ lăkĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς λᾰκῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lăkĭ́dăs
Vocative	λᾰκῐ́ lăkĭ́	λᾰκῐ́δε lăkĭ́de	λᾰκῐ́δες lăkĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster -δς (-ds).

Derived terms

λᾰκῐδόω (lăkĭdóō)
λᾰκῐ́ζω (lăkĭ́zō)

Further reading

“λακίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
λακίς 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

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