λύτειρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λῠ(τήρ) (lu(tḗr), “who loosens, literator”) +‎ -τειρα (-teira, a suffix creating feminine agent nouns)

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

λῠ́τειρᾰ • (lúteira) f (genitive λῠτείρᾱς); first declension (Koine)

1. feminine of λῠτήρ (lutḗr)

Declension

First declension of ἡ λῠ́τειρᾰ; τῆς λῠτείρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠ́τειρᾰ hē lúteira	τὼ λῠτείρᾱ tṑ luteírā	αἱ λῠ́τειραι hai lúteirai
Genitive	τῆς λῠτείρᾱς tês luteírās	τοῖν λῠτείραιν toîn luteírain	τῶν λῠτειρῶν tôn luteirôn
Dative	τῇ λῠτείρᾳ têi luteírāi	τοῖν λῠτείραιν toîn luteírain	ταῖς λῠτείραις taîs luteírais
Accusative	τὴν λῠ́τειρᾰν tḕn lúteiran	τὼ λῠτείρᾱ tṑ luteírā	τᾱ̀ς λῠτείρᾱς tā̀s luteírās
Vocative	λῠ́τειρᾰ lúteira	λῠτείρᾱ luteírā	λῠ́τειραι lúteirai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “λύτειρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λύτειρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “λύτειρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011