λύρα
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.ra/
- (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
λῠ́ρᾰ • (lúra) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς or λῠ́ρης); first declension
- lyre
- lyric poetry and music
- the constellation Lyra
- a sea fish, perhaps a piper gurnard
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λῠ́ρᾰ hē lúra |
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 λῠ́ρᾰν tḕn lúran |
τὼ λῠ́ρᾱ tṑ lúrā |
τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s lúrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠ́ρᾰ lúra |
λῠ́ρᾱ lúrā |
λῠ́ραι lúrai | ||||||||||
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References
- 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
Declension
Further reading
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