λύρα
See also: Λύρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λύρη (lúrē) – Ionic
Etymology
A Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate technical loan. Indo-European etymologies should be rejected.
Pronunciation
- (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
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
First declension of ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)
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
- 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
- → English: lyre
- Greek: λύρα (lýra)
- → Latin: lyra (see there for further descendants)
- → Old High German: līra
- → German: Leier
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.
- guitar idem, page 379.
- harp idem, page 386.
- lyre idem, page 506.
- 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
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
Noun
λύρα • (lýra) f (plural λύρες)
- lyre
Declension
declension of λύρα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | λύρα • | λύρες • |
genitive | λύρας • | λυρών • |
accusative | λύρα • | λύρες • |
vocative | λύρα • | λύρες • |
Further reading
λύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el