λάσιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (for which compare Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”)) or *h₂welh₁- (“wool”).^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.si.os/ → /ˈla.si.os/ → /ˈla.si.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.si.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.si.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.si.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.si.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.si.os/

Adjective

λάσῐος • (lásios) m (feminine λᾰσίᾱ, neuter λάσῐον); first/second declension

1. shaggy, woolly
2. hairy
3. bushy, overgrown

Declension

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		λᾰ́σῐος lásios	λᾰσῐ́ᾱ lasíā	λᾰ́σῐον lásion		λᾰσῐ́ω lasíō	λᾰσῐ́ᾱ lasíā	λᾰσῐ́ω lasíō		λᾰ́σῐοι lásioi	λᾰ́σῐαι lásiai	λᾰ́σῐᾰ lásia
Genitive		λᾰσῐ́ου lasíou	λᾰσῐ́ᾱς lasíās	λᾰσῐ́ου lasíou		λᾰσῐ́οιν lasíoin	λᾰσῐ́αιν lasíain	λᾰσῐ́οιν lasíoin		λᾰσῐ́ων lasíōn	λᾰσῐ́ων lasíōn	λᾰσῐ́ων lasíōn
Dative		λᾰσῐ́ῳ lasíōi	λᾰσῐ́ᾳ lasíāi	λᾰσῐ́ῳ lasíōi		λᾰσῐ́οιν lasíoin	λᾰσῐ́αιν lasíain	λᾰσῐ́οιν lasíoin		λᾰσῐ́οις lasíois	λᾰσῐ́αις lasíais	λᾰσῐ́οις lasíois
Accusative		λᾰ́σῐον lásion	λᾰσῐ́ᾱν lasíān	λᾰ́σῐον lásion		λᾰσῐ́ω lasíō	λᾰσῐ́ᾱ lasíā	λᾰσῐ́ω lasíō		λᾰσῐ́ους lasíous	λᾰσῐ́ᾱς lasíās	λᾰ́σῐᾰ lásia
Vocative		λᾰ́σῐε lásie	λᾰσῐ́ᾱ lasíā	λᾰ́σῐον lásion		λᾰσῐ́ω lasíō	λᾰσῐ́ᾱ lasíā	λᾰσῐ́ω lasíō		λᾰ́σῐοι lásioi	λᾰ́σῐαι lásiai	λᾰ́σῐᾰ lásia
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		λᾰσῐ́ως lasíōs				λᾰσῐώτερος lasiṓteros				λᾰσῐώτᾰτος lasiṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First and second declension of λᾰ́σῐος; λᾰσῐ́ᾱ; λᾰ́σῐον (Attic)

Derived terms

• λασιών (lasiṓn)
• λασιῶτις (lasiôtis)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Lasius

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λάσιος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 836

Further reading

• “λάσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λάσιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λάσιος 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.
  • bushy idem, page 106.
  • hairy idem, page 381.
  • shaggy idem, page 760.
  • thick idem, page 865.
• “λάσιος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011