Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λᾰγῶς ‎(lagôs)
• λᾰγωός ‎(lagōós) Homeric
• λᾰγός ‎(lagós) Ionic

Noun

λᾰγώς • ‎(lagṓs) m ‎(genitive λᾰγώ); Attic declension

1. a hare
2. a coward

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: λαγός ‎(lagós)
• Persian: لاغوس ‎(lâğus) (obsolete)

References

• λαγώς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «λαγώς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 821–822