lécythe
French, noun\le.sit\
lécythe is spelled L-É-C-Y-T-H-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 74 million words in written French, the 270,259th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lécythe is a French masculine noun meaning “lekythos” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de vase où les Grecs mettaient du vin, de l’huile, des parfums, et qui était généralement décoré de…”.
What does lécythe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelekythos
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sorte de vase où les Grecs mettaient du vin, de l’huile, des parfums, et qui était généralement décoré de dessins sur fond uni ; ceux de couleur blanche servaient de stèles ou d'urnes funéraires.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lécythe
- lécythes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lécythe?
- \le.sit\
- [le.sit]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lécythe in French?
lécythe appears about once in every 74 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).