λύθρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λύθρος (lúthros)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”), the same root of λούω (loúō, “to wash”), λῦμα (lûma, “dirt”), Latin lutum (“mire, mud”) and Albanian lym (“loam, clay”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.θron/
Noun
λύθρον • (lúthron) n (genitive λύθρου); second declension
- gore, defilement from blood
- venom of the hydra
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ λῠ́θρον; τοῦ λῠ́θρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λῠ́θρον tò lúthron | τὼ λῠ́θρω tṑ lúthrō | τᾰ̀ λῠ́θρᾰ tà lúthra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λῠ́θρου toû lúthrou | τοῖν λῠ́θροιν toîn lúthroin | τῶν λῠ́θρων tôn lúthrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λῠ́θρῳ tôi lúthrōi | τοῖν λῠ́θροιν toîn lúthroin | τοῖς λῠ́θροις toîs lúthrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λῠ́θρον tò lúthron | τὼ λῠ́θρω tṑ lúthrō | τᾰ̀ λῠ́θρᾰ tà lúthra | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῠ́θρον lúthron | λῠ́θρω lúthrō | λῠ́θρᾰ lúthra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λυθρόω (luthróō)
- λυθρώδης (luthrṓdēs)
Descendants
- Translingual: Lythrum
Further reading
- λύθρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λύθρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λύθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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