Λυδός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Lydian *luwdja (*luwdja) "Luwia" (the -d- is result of affrication of proto-Luwian *-j-), whose territory the Lydians came to live on after being driven away by the Phrygians.[1] Cognate to Hittite [script needed] (Lu-ú-i-ya, “Luwia”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Λῡδός • (Lūdós) m (genitive Λῡδοῦ); second declension

  1. Lydus, legendary first king of Lydia

Noun

Λῡδός • (Lūdós) m (genitive Λῡδοῦ); second declension

  1. an inhabitant of Lydia; a Lydian

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Λῡδός; τοῦ Λῡδοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Λῡδός
ho Lūdós		 τὼ Λῡδώ
tṑ Lūdṓ		 οἱ Λῡδοί
hoi Lūdoí
Genitive τοῦ Λῡδοῦ
toû Lūdoû		 τοῖν Λῡδοῖν
toîn Lūdoîn		 τῶν Λῡδῶν
tôn Lūdôn
Dative τῷ Λῡδῷ
tôi Lūdôi		 τοῖν Λῡδοῖν
toîn Lūdoîn		 τοῖς Λῡδοῖς
toîs Lūdoîs
Accusative τὸν Λῡδόν
tòn Lūdón		 τὼ Λῡδώ
tṑ Lūdṓ		 τοὺς Λῡδούς
toùs Lūdoús
Vocative Λῡδέ
Lūdé		 Λῡδώ
Lūdṓ		 Λῡδοί
Lūdoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 876
  • Λυδός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Λυδός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Λυδός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
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