λαγών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g- (“weak, faint”) the same root of λαγαρός (lagarós, “hollow, sunken”), λαγαίω (lagaíō, “to release”), λάγνος (lágnos, “lascivious”), λήγω (lḗgō, “to stop, cease”) and λωγάνιον (lōgánion, “dewlap of oxen”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /la.ɡɔ̌ːn/ → /laˈɣon/ → /laˈɣon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /la.ɡɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /laˈɡon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /laˈɣon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /laˈɣon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /laˈɣon/

Noun

λᾰγών • (lăgṓn) f or m (genitive λᾰγόνος); third declension

1. (anatomy) hollow on each side below the ribs, flank

   Synonym: κενεών (keneṓn)

2. (in the plural, in Later Greek) womb
3. (figuratively) any hollow, also of cups
4. flank of a mountain
5. side of a grave

Declension

Third declension of ὁ / ἡ λᾰγών; τοῦ / τῆς λᾰγόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ λᾰγών ho / hē lăgṓn	τὼ λᾰγόνε tṑ lăgóne	οἱ / αἱ λᾰγόνες hoi / hai lăgónes
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς λᾰγόνος toû / tês lăgónos	τοῖν λᾰγόνοιν toîn lăgónoin	τῶν λᾰγόνων tôn lăgónōn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ λᾰγόνῐ tōî / tēî lăgónĭ	τοῖν λᾰγόνοιν toîn lăgónoin	τοῖς / ταῖς λᾰγόσῐ / λᾰγόσῐν toîs / taîs lăgósĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν λᾰγόνᾰ tòn / tḕn lăgónă	τὼ λᾰγόνε tṑ lăgóne	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς λᾰγόνᾰς toùs / tā̀s lăgónăs
Vocative	λᾰγών lăgṓn	λᾰγόνε lăgóne	λᾰγόνες lăgónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: λαγόνα (lagóna)

Further reading

• “λαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λαγών in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

λαγών • (lagón) m

1. genitive plural of λαγός (lagós)