Strong G3006λεῖος

λεῖος, α, ον,
smooth to the touch, [αἴγειρος] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.484; λ. ὥσπερ ἔγχελυς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 218, compare 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 338)]; χῆμαι, χηραμβίς, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 82.12 (3rd c.BC))], [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus see at {χήμ; τὰ τραχέα καὶ τὰ λ}. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.10.1; frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, “Cra.” 414b, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 10a17, etc.)]; also, of cloths, smooth, plain, not embroidered, ὑφαντά τε καὶ λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.97; λ. ὕφασμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 310e)]; λεῖα ἐκπεποιημένα worked smooth, of marble, [Refs (“IG” 12.372.134; also λεία ἐργασία [prev. work]372.165;)] unsculptured, Ἀθήνης ἕδος [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 105.4)]; of plate, unembossed, φιάλαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 11(2).161 B 27 (Delos, 3rd c.BC), “Inscription Délos” 442 B 78 (2nd c.BC).)]
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], chiefly of level places or countries, λεῖος δ᾽ ἱππόδρομος ἀμφίς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.330)]; ἐν λείῳ πεδίῳ[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 359; λ. ὁδός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.103, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 288 (cited in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, etc., ὀλίγη codices))]; λ. ἄροσις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.134)]; λεῖα δ᾽ ἐποίησεν made a smooth place, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.30; πεδίον λ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.29; χωρίον λειότατον [prev. author] 7.9. ; ἡ -οτάτη τῶν ὁδῶν [prev. author] 9.69)]; λ. θάλασσα a smooth sea, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.117; λ. χώρα καὶ ἄξυλος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Atheniensium” 2.12)]; λ. βάσεις flat feet, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.856.)]
2.b with genitive, χῶρος.. λεῖος πετράων smooth (i.e. free) from rocks, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.443, 7.282.)]
3 smoothskinned, without hair, of animals, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 582b35, LXX.Gen.27.11; - ότατον τῶν ζῴων ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 583a6)]; especially of youths, smooth-chinned, beardless (compare λείαξ), [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.90, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 12.13 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus))]; also, of fish, smooth, ἱππίδια [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 44)]; opposed to λεπιδωτοί, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 505a26)]; [γαλεός] the smooth shark, Mustelus laevis,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 565b2, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 1.380; τὸ λ. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 3.14, 6.3.16)]; λείη ὑπόστασις a smooth or uniform sediment, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Coac.” 462; [γάλα] λ. καὶ ὁμαλὸν καὶ συνεχὲς ἑαυτῷ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.91.)]
4 metaphorically, smooth, soft, πνεῦμα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1003)]; of the sound of the voice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 307a, “Ti.” 67b, “Phlb.” 51d; διάλεκτος 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Po.Herc.” 994.36)]; of the taste, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 100ef; also λ. μῦθοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 647)]; [τὸ] ἥμερόν τε καὶ λ. [τοῦ ἤθους] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 406a)]; λ. πάθημα, opposed to τραχύ, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 63e; λ. κινήματα τῆς σαρκός 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 411)]; λ. κίνησις, Cyrenaic phrase for ἡδονή, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.86, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 10, 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Topicorum libros octo commentaria - pars” 94.32; λ. ἡσυχίη “Anthologia Graeca” 7.278 (1st c.BC: Archias Byzantine))]; ὡς -οτέρου ἐλέους ὑπάρξοντος (sed to be read τελειοτέρου) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 20.9.11)]; τὸ λ., ={λειότης, τῆς ἑρμηνείας} [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 24; τὸ λ. καὶ ὁμαλὲς τῆς συνθέσεως 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 48.)] adverb λείως smoothly, gently, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 144b, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.384a; καί με κωτίλλοντα λ. τραχὺν ἐκφανεῖν νόον 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 12.3.)]
II rubbed or ground down, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.3, +others, “PHolm.” 19.39; compare λειόω 11: λεῖον, τό)], fine sand, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Inscription Délos 500 A 9 (3rd c.BC))]. (Prob. λειϝος, cf. Latin lēvis.)