λιμός

See also: λοιμός and λιμό

Ancient Greek

May be connected with λοιμός (loimós, “plague”).

λῑμός • (līmós) m or f (genitive λῑμοῦ); second declension

Second declension of ὁ / ἡ λῑμός; τοῦ / τῆς λῑμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ λῑμός ho / hē līmós	τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ	οἱ / αἱ λῑμοί hoi / hai līmoí
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς λῑμοῦ toû / tês līmoû	τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn	τῶν λῑμῶν tôn līmôn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ λῑμῷ tōî / tēî līmōî	τοῖν λῑμοῖν toîn līmoîn	τοῖς / ταῖς λῑμοῖς toîs / taîs līmoîs
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν λῑμόν tòn / tḕn līmón	τὼ λῑμώ tṑ līmṓ	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς λῑμούς toùs / tā̀s līmoús
Vocative	λῑμέ līmé	λῑμώ līmṓ	λῑμοί līmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“λιμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
λιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
λιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“λιμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3042 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- deprivation idem, page 213.
- famine idem, page 305.
- hunger idem, page 410.
- pang idem, page 591.
- privation idem, page 642.
- starvation idem, page 812.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Learnedly, borrowed from Ancient Greek λιμός (limós, “hunger, famine”).

λιμός • (limós) m (plural λιμοί)