λύρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A Mediterranean substrate word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lý.ra/ → /ˈly.ra/ → /ˈli.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lý.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/

Noun

λῠ́ρᾰ • (lúra) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς or λῠ́ρης); first declension

1. lyre
2. lyric poetry and music
3. the constellation Lyra
4. a sea fish, perhaps a piper gurnard

Inflection

First declension of ἡ λῠ́ρᾰ; τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠ́ρᾰ hē lúra	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 λῠ́ρᾰν tḕn lúran	τὼ λῠ́ρᾱ tṑ lúrā	τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s lúrās
Vocative	λῠ́ρᾰ lúra	λῠ́ρᾱ lúrā	λῠ́ραι lúrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λυρικός (lurikós)
• λυριστής (luristḗs)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • guitar idem, page 379.
  • harp idem, page 386.
  • lyre idem, page 506.

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Greek

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Noun

λύρα • (lýra) f (plural λύρες)

1. lyre

Declension

Declension of λύρα

	singular	plural
nominative	λύρα •	λύρες •
genitive	λύρας •	λυρών •
accusative	λύρα •	λύρες •
vocative	λύρα •	λύρες •

Further reading

• λύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el