λέπρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λέπρη (léprē) – Ionic
Etymology
From λεπίς (lepís, “scale (on skin), flake”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.praː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.pra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.pra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.pra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.pra/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λέπρᾱ hē léprā |
τὼ λέπρᾱ tṑ léprā |
αἱ λέπραι hai léprai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λέπρᾱς tês léprās |
τοῖν λέπραιν toîn léprain |
τῶν λεπρῶν tôn leprôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λέπρᾳ têi léprāi |
τοῖν λέπραιν toîn léprain |
ταῖς λέπραις taîs léprais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λέπρᾱν tḕn léprān |
τὼ λέπρᾱ tṑ léprā |
τᾱ̀ς λέπρᾱς tā̀s léprās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λέπρᾱ léprā |
λέπρᾱ léprā |
λέπραι léprai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: lepra (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- λέπρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λέπρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λέπρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3014 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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