λαιόν (laion)

λαιόν is an Ancient Greek form of λαιός, meaning “left”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Λάιος, “Laios — Laius, king of Thebes, father of Oedipus”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 71 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1237: λαιὸν μὲν καθύπερθεν ἐπʼ αὐχένος ἄνθετο πῆχυν

Euripides, Heracleidae 728: λαιόν τʼ ἔπαιρε πῆχυν, εὐθύνων πόδα.

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 9: φῦναι λέγουσιν, ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε Λάιον.

All forms of λαιός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.