Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /lepís/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lepís/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lepís/

Noun

λεπίς • ‎(lepís) f ‎(genitive λεπίδος); third declension

1. scale, flake, shell, husk
2. epithelial debris
3. plate of metal
4. blade of a saw

Inflection

Descendants

• Translingual: Grammicolepis

References

• λεπίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λεπίς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «λεπίς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3013”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • egg-shell idem, page 263.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • shell idem, page 764.