λύθρον
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- λύθρος (lúthros)
Etymology edit
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”). Compare Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhira, “blood, gore”), in which case the color-word being the same is coincidence.
Pronunciation edit
- (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 edit
λύθρον • (lúthron) n (genitive λύθρου); second declension
Inflection edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- Translingual: Lythrum
Further reading edit
- “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