λάμβδα
κάμψαι διαύλου θάτερον κῶλον πάλιν → bend back along the second turn of the race, turning the bend and coming back for the second leg of the double run, run the homeward course, retrace one's steps
English (LSJ)
λαμβδοειδής, v. λάβδα, λαβδοειδής.
German (Pape)
[Seite 11] τό, indeclin., der Name des elften Buchstaben des griechischen Alphabets.
French (Bailly abrégé)
(τό) :
indécl.
lambda :
11ᵉ lettre de l'alphabet;
comme chiffre λʹ = 30 - ͵λ et postér. Λ = 30 000.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
λάμβδα: τό indecl. ламбда (название греч. буквы λ).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λάμβδα: λαμβδᾰκίζω, λαμβδακισμός, ἴδε ἄρθρῳ Λλ. ἀρχ.
Greek Monolingual
Greek Monotonic
λάμβδα: λαμβδᾰκίζω, λαμβδακισμός, βλ. Λ, λ.
Frisk Etymological English
See also: s. λάβδα.
Middle Liddell
Λ, λ, λάμβδα λάβδα, τό, indecl., eleventh letter of the Gr. Alphabet: as a numeral λ#= 30, but #22λ = 30, 000.
1. attic λ is sometimes represented by π, as κλίβανος κρίβανος, γλώσσαλγος γλώσσαργος, ναύκραρος ναύκληρος, ἀλκ-ή ἀρκ-εῖν: so, ὁλᾷς Θέωλος κόλαξ were lisping pronunc. for ὁρᾷς Θέωρος κόραξ, Ar.
2. doric λ becomes ν, as, ἦνθον φίντατος for ἦλθον φίλτατος; whereas attic λ sometimes replaces ν, as, λίτρον πλεύμων for νίτρον πνεύμων.
3. initial λ is dropt, as εἴβω for λείβω, αἰψηρὸς ἀφύσσω ἄχνη for λαιψηρὸς λαφύσσω λάχνη.
4. epic Poets double λ, metri grat., esp. after the augment, as, ἔλλαβε ἐλλιτάνευε; and in compds., as in τρίλλιστος:—and Homer omits λ, where two come together, metri grat., as Ἀχιλεύς.
5. δ sometimes becomes λ, cf. δέλτα, II. 5.
6. γ and λ are interchanged in μόγις μόλις.
7. ν before λ becomes λ, as in συλλαμβάνω ἐλλείπω.
Frisk Etymology German
λάμβδα: {lámbda}
See also: s. λάβδα.
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