λιμός

Maybe connected with λοιμός (loimós, “plague”).

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

1. famine, hunger, starvation

   Synonym: πεῖνα (peîna)

• “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, 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”).

• IPA^(key): /liˈmos/
• Hyphenation: λι‧μός
• Homophone: λοιμός (loimós) ("epidemic")

λιμός • (limós) m (plural λιμοί)

1. famine, starvation

• πείνα f (peína, “hunger”)

• λιμό n (limó, “a lower rank playing card”)