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- λ109Λαξευτήριονstonecutter… headword comes from the Psalms (73.6 LXX: dative there); cf. Hesychius lambda87. [1] Of iron, according to Hesychius lambda286.
- λ342ΛευράsmoothNeuter plural of the adjective leuro/s, evidently quoted from somewhere. Hesychius lambda748 glosses it as lei=a; cf. lambda 353.
- λ188ΛαιμάσσωI am greedycf. generally lambda 187. Hesychius lambda140 has a very similar definition of the verb laima/w.
- λ52Λακερύζεσθαιto squawkLikewise in Photius, Lexicon lambda35 Theodoridis (and similarly already in Hesychius lambda190). cf. lambda 51.
- λ458ΛηναιώνLenaion… Days 504 and elsewhere (not including Athens). Fuller entry in Hesychius lambda882.
- λ175Λαιδρόςbrash, impudent… in the scholia to the latter (Theriaca 689); see also Hesychius lambda123 and lambda124. (Both of these Hesychius entries also associate the word with a)ristera/ or a)ristero/s, one of several terms meaning 'left'; cf. …
- λ457ΛηναῖοςLenaian, Lenaeancf. Hesychius lambda881. See also lambda 454, lambda 455, lambda 456, lambda 458, lambda 563 (and delta 1185 for Dionysos).
- λ623Λίτραpound… s.v. litra II. More fully in other lexica: see e.g. Hesychius lambda1151, Photius lambda359 Theodoridis.
- λ479Λίανexcessively, extremelycf. generally Hesychius lambda923 (and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.361). Headword and gloss, both commonplace adverbs, are reversed at pi 247.
- λ499Λιγαίνωνcrying out… elsewhere: see the references at Photius lambda298 Theodoridis. [2] cf. Hesychius lambda957, with me/lpwn, h(dews u(mnw=n; and more generally Hesychius lambda955 and lambda956.
- λ800Λυκείηνwolfskin… address 1), where the accusative-case headword occurs (as luke/hn); and Hesychius lambda1373.
- λ473Λῄσταρχοςpirate-chiefSimilarly in Hesychius lambda908. For the headword see e.g. Diodorus Siculus 33.1.5; Appian, Iberica 289; Polyaenus 4.9.3; and cf. generally lambda 474, lambda 475).
- λ327Λευκὴ ψῆφοςwhite pebble, white voteHesychius lambda730; Apostolius 10.62, etc. cf. generally psi 85 (which explains 'or miserably').
- λ9Λαβρότατοςmost intemperate, very intemperate… also under alpha 4140. Already, with the same gloss in Hesychius lambda29; presumably extracted from somewhere, though not necessarily in this nominative case.
- λ37Λάϊγγεςpebbles… headword occurs (web address 1). Same gloss, with others, in Hesychius lambda118. The nominative singular la=i+gc: diminutive of lambda 1/lambda 2.
- λ601Λίσσεσθαιto supplicatecf. Hesychius lambda1123, and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.174, where the headword verb occurs in the first person singular, as at lambda 602: see web address 1. The lexicographers' infinitive occurs in (e.g.) …
- λ355ΛειανέωI will smooth… scholia ad loc., as well as the Etymologicum Genuinum and Hesychius.
- λ343Λεύσετεyou gaze… scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.120 (web address 1), paralleled in Hesychius; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 562.8, and Apion.
- λ727Λῶμαfringe, hem… 1049 and omega 1. It has a fuller definition in Hesychius lambda1506, where Latte suggests that the source is the Septuagint (Exodus 28.33 etc.). For the glossing word see kappa 2331.
- λ764Λοισθώνηincontinent… singulars. The headword is unattested outside lexicography. Of the lexica, Hesychius lambda1248 is the most informative, citing the word in the masculine accusative plural (evidently quoted from somewhere) and glossing it as "those unrestrained …
- λ701Λοφνῆσιwith vine-barks… Alexandra 48. Similar entry (for the nominative singular lofni/s) in Hesychius lambda1292.
- λ489Λιβανωτόςfrankincense… headword occurs in the accusative (web address 1); see also Hesychius lambda936. cf. lambda 499.
- λ208Λαῖφοςlaiphos… fai/nesqai "very much to be seen"); Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon and Hesychius as just "cloth" (with one ms of Hesychius adding "namely, sail"); and the Synagoge, Photius, and the Lexica Segueriana as just "outer-garment". The …
- λ368Λειξούραgluttony… lambda 367 (q.v.). The word is defined as "gift" in Hesychius. It is defined as "greed" in ps.-Zonaras, and occurs in Early Modern Greek in that meaning (Chronicle of the Tocci 10.9,; A. Guillou, …
- λ202Λαιστρόνlaistron… Orthography 27, and ps.-Zonaras s.v. laitro/n. Seemingly a corruption of Hesychius' la/iton (lambda163) -- glossed as a)rxei=on -- which in turn is an Atticisation of Herodotus 7.197.2 ('the Achaians call to\ prutanh/ion a lh/iton, …
- λ242Λελιημένοςlonging forcf. Hesychius lambda620; Etymologicum Genuinum lambda60; Etymologicum Magnum 560.3; scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.465 (web address 1), and 5.690 (web address 2), where the headword (masculine nominative singular participle of the defective epic perfect …
- λ779Λύγξlynx… entry (Adler reports) in the Laurentian lexicon; similar one in Hesychius lambda1341 and ps.-Zonaras. Felis lynx, or sometimes Felis caracal: see LSJ entry for lu/gc (A) at web address 1, and cf. lambda 777. …
- λ205Λαῖτμαgulf [of the sea]… ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon; similar in Hesychius lambda166 and ps.-Zonaras. [2] Likewise in a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 4.504, where the headword occurs (web address 1).
- λ525Λιθουργόςstone-worker… term is more unusual than the headword. Latte's edition of Hesychius suggests that the source of the entry is commentary on Ecclesiasticus/Sirach 45.11. cf. lambda 526.
- λ524Λιθουλκῆσαιto stone-drag… the rare verb liqoulke/w -- is presumably quoted from somewhere. Hesychius lambda1000 has the present infinitive liqoulkei=n but with a different gloss: 'to drag something with difficulty'.