λυτήρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λύ(ω) (lú(ō), “loosen”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, a suffix creating agent nouns)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ly.tɛ̌ːr/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /lyˈte̝r/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /lyˈtir/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /lyˈtir/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /liˈtir/
Noun
λυτήρ • (lutḗr) m (genitive λῠτῆρος); third declension (λύτειρα f (lúteira))
- one who looses, deliverer
Declension
Third declension of ὁ λῠτήρ; τοῦ λῠτῆρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λῠτήρ ho lutḗr | τὼ λῠτῆρε tṑ lutêre | οἱ λῠτῆρες hoi lutêres | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λῠτῆρος toû lutêros | τοῖν λῠτήροιν toîn lutḗroin | τῶν λῠτήρων tôn lutḗrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λῠτῆρῐ tôi lutêri | τοῖν λῠτήροιν toîn lutḗroin | τοῖς λῠτῆρσῐ / λῠτῆρσῐν toîs lutêrsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λῠτῆρᾰ tòn lutêra | τὼ λῠτῆρε tṑ lutêre | τοὺς λῠτῆρᾰς toùs lutêras | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῠτήρ lutḗr | λῠτῆρε lutêre | λῠτῆρες lutêres | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “λυτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λυτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λυτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λυτήρ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.