Λίγυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name is of uncertain origin. Room suggests an Etruscan, Basque, or other language isolate ethnonym, hinted by the -sc- element found in older Latin forms ligusc*; Compare Latin Vascones and Etruscus.

Imberciadori more recently connects it with Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyg- (“to smear, make smooth”), deriving possessive *(s)lig-wés- / *(s)lig-us- (“bright”) through an internally derived s-stem *(s)léig-us (“brightness”), from the semantics of Proto-Indo-European *(s)léyg-u- / *(s)lig-éw- (“flat, even; equal”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Λῐ́γῠς • (Lígus) m (genitive Λῐ́γῠος); third declension

  1. one of the Ligures; a Ligurian
  2. an inhabitant of Liguria; a Ligurian

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Λῐ́γῠς; τοῦ Λῐ́γῠος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Λῐ́γῠς
ho Lígus		 τὼ Λῐ́γῠε
tṑ Lígue		 οἱ Λῐ́γῠες
hoi Lígues
Genitive τοῦ Λῐ́γῠος
toû Líguos		 τοῖν Λῐγῠ́οιν
toîn Ligúoin		 τῶν Λῐγῠ́ων
tôn Ligúōn
Dative τῷ Λῐ́γῠῐ̈ / Λῐ́γυι
tôi Líguï / Lígui		 τοῖν Λῐγῠ́οιν
toîn Ligúoin		 τοῖς Λῐ́γῠσῐ / Λῐ́γῠσῐν
toîs Lígusi(n)
Accusative τὸν Λῐ́γῠν
tòn Lígun		 τὼ Λῐ́γῠε
tṑ Lígue		 τοὺς Λῐ́γῡς / Λῐ́γῠᾰς
toùs Lígūs / Líguas
Vocative Λῐ́γῠ
Lígu		 Λῐ́γῠε
Lígue		 Λῐ́γῠες
Lígues
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Λίγυς (Lígys)

References
  • “Λίγυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Λίγυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015
  • Room, Adrian (2006): Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co.,
  • Imberciadori, Giulio: The Bright Ligurians, in: Beiträge zur Namenforschung, Volume 57, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 81 - 97;
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