λοιμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Compare λύμη (lúmē), λύμα (lúma), λυμαίνομαι (lumaínomai)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /loi̯.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lyˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lyˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lyˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /liˈmos/
Noun
λοιμός • (loimós) m (genitive λοιμοῦ); second declension
- plague, pestilence, any deadly infectious disorder
- (of person) a plague, a pest
- (as adjective) pestilent
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ λοιμός ho loimós |
τὼ λοιμώ tṑ loimṓ |
οἱ λοιμοί hoi loimoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λοιμοῦ toû loimoû |
τοῖν λοιμοῖν toîn loimoîn |
τῶν λοιμῶν tôn loimôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λοιμῷ tôi loimôi |
τοῖν λοιμοῖν toîn loimoîn |
τοῖς λοιμοῖς toîs loimoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν λοιμόν tòn loimón |
τὼ λοιμώ tṑ loimṓ |
τοὺς λοιμούς toùs loimoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λοιμέ loimé |
λοιμώ loimṓ |
λοιμοί loimoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λοιμός (loimós)
Further reading
- λοιμός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λοιμός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λοιμός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λοιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λοιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3061 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.
- contagion idem, page 166.
- disease idem, page 232.
- epidemic idem, page 279.
- infectious disease idem, page 437.
- murrain idem, page 547.
- pest idem, page 609.
- pestilence idem, page 609.
- plague idem, page 616.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- sickness idem, page 772.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós).
Declension
declension of λοιμός
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | λοιμός • | λοιμοί • |
| genitive | λοιμού • | λοιμών • |
| accusative | λοιμό • | λοιμούς • |
| vocative | λοιμέ • | λοιμοί • |
Related terms
- λοίμωξη m (loímoxi, “infection”)
- λοιμώδης (loimódis, “infectious”)
- λοιμοκαθαρτήριο n (loimokathartírio, “quarantine”)
Further reading
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