λῆνος

See also: ληνός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • λᾶνος (lânos) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wlḗnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ū́rṇā), Latin lāna, Old English wull (whence English wool).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

λῆνος • (lênos) n (genitive λήνους or λήνεος); third declension

  1. wool
  2. (in the plural) fleece

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ λῆνος; τοῦ λήνους (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ λῆνος
tò lênos		 τὼ λήνει
tṑ lḗnei		 τᾰ̀ λήνη
tà lḗnē
Genitive τοῦ λήνους
toû lḗnous		 τοῖν ληνοῖν
toîn lēnoîn		 τῶν ληνῶν
tôn lēnôn
Dative τῷ λήνει
tôi lḗnei		 τοῖν ληνοῖν
toîn lēnoîn		 τοῖς λήνεσῐ / λήνεσῐν
toîs lḗnesi(n)
Accusative τὸ λῆνος
tò lênos		 τὼ λήνει
tṑ lḗnei		 τᾰ̀ λήνη
tà lḗnē
Vocative λῆνος
lênos		 λήνει
lḗnei		 λήνη
lḗnē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “λῆνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • λῆνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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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