λεπίς

Ancient Greek

Perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel”) +‎ -ῐς (-is, feminine suffix).

λεπῐ́ς • (lepís) f (genitive λεπῐ́δος); third declension

Third declension of ἡ λεπῐ́ς; τῆς λεπῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λεπῐ́ς hē lepís	τὼ λεπῐ́δε tṑ lepíde	αἱ λεπῐ́δες hai lepídes
Genitive	τῆς λεπῐ́δος tês lepídos	τοῖν λεπῐ́δοιν toîn lepídoin	τῶν λεπῐ́δων tôn lepídōn
Dative	τῇ λεπῐ́δῐ têi lepídi	τοῖν λεπῐ́δοιν toîn lepídoin	ταῖς λεπῐ́σῐ / λεπῐ́σῐν taîs lepísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν λεπῐ́δᾰ tḕn lepída	τὼ λεπῐ́δε tṑ lepíde	τᾱ̀ς λεπῐ́δᾰς tā̀s lepídas
Vocative	λεπῐ́ς lepís	λεπῐ́δε lepíde	λεπῐ́δες lepídes
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 *-ds.

λεπίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
λεπίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
λεπίς 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
G3013 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- egg-shell idem, page 263.
- scale idem, page 736.
- shell idem, page 764.

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