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
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
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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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