λύρα
See also: Λύρα
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
A Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate technical loan. Indo-European etymologies should be rejected.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ra/
Noun edit
λῠ́ρᾱ • (lúrā) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς); first declension
- lyre, string instrument with a sounding board formed of a shell of a tortoise
- lyric poetry and music
- (astronomy) Lyra, a constellation
- piper gurnard (Trigla lyra)
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ hē lúrā |
τὼ λῠ́ρᾱ tṑ lúrā |
αἱ λῠ́ραι hai lúrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς tês lúrās |
τοῖν λῠ́ραιν toîn lúrain |
τῶν λῠρῶν tôn lurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λῠ́ρᾳ têi lúrāi |
τοῖν λῠ́ραιν toîn lúrain |
ταῖς λῠ́ραις taîs lúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λῠ́ρᾱν tḕn lúrān |
τὼ λῠ́ρᾱ tṑ lúrā |
τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s lúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῠ́ρᾱ lúrā |
λῠ́ρᾱ lúrā |
λῠ́ραι lúrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- ἀντίλυρος (antíluros)
- λυρίζω (lurízō)
- λυρικός (lurikós)
- λύριον (lúrion)
- λυρισμός (lurismós)
- λυριστής (luristḗs)
- λυρογηθής (lurogēthḗs)
- λυρόδμητος (luródmētos)
- λυρόεις (luróeis)
- λυροεργός (luroergós)
- λυροθελγής (lurothelgḗs)
- λυρόκτυπος (luróktupos)
- λυροποιός (luropoiós)
- λυροφοῖνιξ (lurophoînix)
- λυρώδης (lurṓdēs)
- λυρῳδός (lurōidós)
- λυρωνία (lurōnía)
Descendants edit
- → English: lyre
- Greek: λύρα (lýra)
- → Latin: lyra (see there for further descendants)
- → Old High German: līra
- → German: Leier
References edit
- “λύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λύρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
λύρα • (lýra) f (plural λύρες)
Declension edit
declension of λύρα
Further reading edit
- λύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el