λαύρα
See also: Λαύρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λαύρη (laúrē) – Epic, Ionic
Etymology
Of Pre-Greek origin, according to Beekes.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lǎu̯.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlaw.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.βra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.vra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.vra/
Noun
λαύρᾱ • (laúrā) f (genitive λαύρᾱς); first declension
- alley, lane, passage
- bazaar
- avenue
- block of houses surrounded by streets, ward, town quarter
- (in the plural) privy, sewer
Declension
First declension of ἡ λαύρᾱ; τῆς λαύρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λαύρᾱ hē laúrā | τὼ λαύρᾱ tṑ laúrā | αἱ λαῦραι hai laûrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λαύρᾱς tês laúrās | τοῖν λαύραιν toîn laúrain | τῶν λαυρῶν tôn laurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λαύρᾳ têi laúrāi | τοῖν λαύραιν toîn laúrain | ταῖς λαύραις taîs laúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λαύρᾱν tḕn laúrān | τὼ λαύρᾱ tṑ laúrā | τᾱ̀ς λαύρᾱς tā̀s laúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | λαύρᾱ laúrā | λαύρᾱ laúrā | λαῦραι laûrai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (city block): ἄμφοδον (ámphodon)
Derived terms
- λαυροστᾰ́ται (laurostátai)
Descendants
- → Late Latin: laura
- → English: laura
- → Italian: laura
- → Sicilian: laura
References
- “λαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λαύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λαύρα”, 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.
- alley idem, page 25.
- 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