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

 

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

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lý.raː/
• (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

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
  • → 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^[1], 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)

1. lyre

Declension

declension of λύρα

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

Further reading

• λύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el