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λευκάς

leukas

2

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. λευκάς · leukas — Chantraine

2. λευκάς, -ἄδος est proprement un féminin de λευκός «blanche» (Nic.). ΔΛευκὰς πέτρη «la roche blanche» {(Od. 24,10), d’où Δευκάς nom de l’île de Leucade {ion.-att.), enfin, λευκάς appellatif désigne une plante «le lamier » (Nic., etc.). 3. Substantifs dérivés : λευκότης f. « blancheur » (ion.- att.), λεύκηθρον nom de plante, probablement léontice (Dse.,). 4. Onomastique : λευκίτᾶς m. est le nom d’un bouc{Théoc. … — [Chantraine, s.v. λευκάς, p. 650]

2. λευκ-άς · leuk-as — LSJ

fem. of λευκός: Λ. πέτρη as pr.n. of mythical and real promontories, Od. 24.11, Anacr. 19, cf. E. Cyc. 166; Λ. alone, Th. 1.30, etc.

II mountain dead-nettle, Lamium maculatum, dead-nettle, L. Moschatum

λ. ὀρεινή mountain dead-nettle, Lamium maculatum, Dsc. 3.99; λ. ἥμερος dead-nettle, L. Moschatum, ibid.

2 white

epith. of ἤρυγγος, white, Nic. Th. 849.

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Where it came from

  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λευκάς (scan p. 650; entry #4782).

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