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
 

Noun

λῠ́ρᾱ • (lúrā) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς); first declension

  1. lyre, string instrument with a sounding board formed of a shell of a tortoise
  2. lyric poetry and music
  3. (astronomy) Lyra, a constellation
  4. piper gurnard (Trigla lyra)

Inflection
First declension of ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
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
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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

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.
  • 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).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈli.ɾa/
  • Rhymes: -iɾa
  • Hyphenation: li‧ra

Noun

λύρα • (lýra) f (plural λύρες)

  1. lyre

Declension
declension of λύρα
case     \     number singular plural
nominative λύρα • λύρες •
genitive λύρας • λυρών •
accusative λύρα • λύρες •
vocative λύρα • λύρες •

Further reading
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