λυχνῖτις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”) + -ῖτις (-îtis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ly.kʰnîː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lyˈkʰni.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lyˈxni.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lyˈxni.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /liˈxni.tis/
Noun
λῠχνῖτῐς • (lŭkhnîtĭs) f (genitive λῠχνῑ́τῐδος); third declension
- candlewick (Verbascum mallophorum), of Greece, Albania, and southern Italy
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λῠχνῖτῐς hē lŭkhnîtĭs |
τὼ λῠχνῑ́τῐδε tṑ lŭkhnī́tĭde |
αἱ λῠχνῑ́τῐδες hai lŭkhnī́tĭdes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λῠχνῑ́τῐδος tês lŭkhnī́tĭdos |
τοῖν λῠχνῑτῐ́δοιν toîn lŭkhnītĭ́doin |
τῶν λῠχνῑτῐ́δων tôn lŭkhnītĭ́dōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λῠχνῑ́τῐδῐ tēî lŭkhnī́tĭdĭ |
τοῖν λῠχνῑτῐ́δοιν toîn lŭkhnītĭ́doin |
ταῖς λῠχνῑ́τῐσῐ / λῠχνῑ́τῐσῐν taîs lŭkhnī́tĭsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λῠχνῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn lŭkhnī́tĭdă |
τὼ λῠχνῑ́τῐδε tṑ lŭkhnī́tĭde |
τᾱ̀ς λῠχνῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s lŭkhnī́tĭdăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠχνῖτῐς lŭkhnîtĭs |
λῠχνῑ́τῐδε lŭkhnī́tĭde |
λῠχνῑ́τῐδες lŭkhnī́tĭdes | ||||||||||
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References
- “λυχνῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λυχνῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette