λύχνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *luk-s-nos, from *lewk-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lý.kʰnos/ → /ˈly.xnos/ → /ˈli.xnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lý.kʰnos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.kʰnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.xnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.xnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.xnos/

Noun

λῠ́χνος • (lúkhnos) m (genitive λῠ́χνου); second declension

1. lamp

Declension

Second declension of ὁ λῠ́χνος; τοῦ λῠ́χνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λῠ́χνος ho lúkhnos	τὼ λῠ́χνω tṑ lúkhnō	οἱ λῠ́χνοι hoi lúkhnoi
Genitive	τοῦ λῠ́χνου toû lúkhnou	τοῖν λῠ́χνοιν toîn lúkhnoin	τῶν λῠ́χνων tôn lúkhnōn
Dative	τῷ λῠ́χνῳ tôi lúkhnōi	τοῖν λῠ́χνοιν toîn lúkhnoin	τοῖς λῠ́χνοις toîs lúkhnois
Accusative	τὸν λῠ́χνον tòn lúkhnon	τὼ λῠ́χνω tṑ lúkhnō	τοὺς λῠ́χνους toùs lúkhnous
Vocative	λῠ́χνε lúkhne	λῠ́χνω lúkhnō	λῠ́χνοι lúkhnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐλλύχνιον (ellúkhnion)
• ἐλλύχνιος (ellúkhnios)
• λυχνίς (lukhnís)
• λυχνῖτις (lukhnîtis)
• λυχνοκαΐα (lukhnokaḯa)
• λυχνοῦχος (lukhnoûkhos)

 

Further reading

• “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λύχνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “λύχνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• λύχνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• λύχνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3088 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lamp idem, page 474.
  • light idem, page 490.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λῠ́χνος (lúkhnos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.xnos/

Noun

λύχνος • (lýchnos) m (plural λύχνοι)

1. oil lamp

Declension

Declension of λύχνος

	singular	plural
nominative	λύχνος •	λύχνοι •
genitive	λύχνου •	λύχνων •
accusative	λύχνο •	λύχνους •
vocative	λύχνε •	λύχνοι •

Derived terms

• λυχνάρι n (lychnári, “oil or fat lamp”)

References

• λύχνος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language