Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Λᾶμνος ‎(Lâmnos) Doric

Proper noun

Λῆμνος • ‎(Lêmnos) f ‎(genitive Λήμνου); second declension

1. Lemnos
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.593
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.283
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.851

Declension

Synonyms

• Αἰθᾰ́λειᾰ ‎(Aitháleia), Δῐ́πολῐς ‎(Dípolis), Ῠ̔ψῐπῠ́λη ‎(Hupsipúlē)

Derived terms

• Λαμνόθεν ‎(Lamnóthen)
• Λήμνῐος ‎(Lḗmnios)
• Λημνῐᾰκός ‎(Lēmniakós)
• Λημνῐᾰ́ς ‎(Lēmniás)
• Λημνίς ‎(Lēmnís)

Descendants

• English: Lemnos
• Latin: Lēmnos
• Greek: Λήμνος ‎(Límnos)
• Turkish: Limni

References

• Λῆμνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Λῆμνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Λῆμνος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015