lira
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of libra and livre.
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NounEdit
lira (plural lire or lira or liras)
- The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
- The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
- The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro
NounEdit
lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)
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Etymology 2Edit
From Ukrainian ліра (lira), ultimately related to the Byzantine lyra (Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)). Doublet of Lyra and lyre.
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NounEdit
lira
- A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
Etymology 3Edit
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NounEdit
lira (plural lirae)
- Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
lira
- Alternative form of lyra
- 1940, Curt Sachs, The History of Musical Instruments, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 275:
- The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.
- 1976, Musicological Annual, page 118:
- Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).
- 1977, Laurence Wright, “The Medieval Gittern and Citole: A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in The Galpin Society Journal:
- Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.
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Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
lira f (plural lires)
- lira (currency)
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Etymology 2Edit
From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra), attested from the 15th century.[1]
NounEdit
lira f (plural lires)
- lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “lira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further readingEdit
- “lira” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “lira” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “lira” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Italian lira, from Latin lībra.[1]
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NounEdit
lira f
- lira (former currency of Italy) [19th c.]
- lira (currency of Turkey)
- lira (former currency of Israel)
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FrenchEdit
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Audio (file)
VerbEdit
lira
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ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
lira f (plural lire)
DescendantsEdit
- Turkish: lira
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā).
NounEdit
lira f (plural lire)
- lyre
- Synonym: cetra
- 1959, Indro Montanelli, “Capitolo tredicesimo: Licurgo [Thirteenth Chapter: Lykourgos]”, in Storia dei Greci [History of the Greeks], 39th edition, Milan, published 1973, page 119:
- Dopo Terpandro venne Timoteo, che tentò di perfezionare la lira portandone le corde da sette a undici.
- After Terpander came Timotheus, who tried to perfect the lyre increasing the number of its strings from seven to eleven.
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *loizā, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂ (“following, track; furrow”),[1] from *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”).
Cognate with Oscan feminine ablative plural 𐌋𐌖𐌉𐌔𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌚𐌔 (luisarifs, the name of a month, perhaps "in which the furrows are drawn"), Old High German leisa (“track”) (German Gleis), Old Church Slavonic лѣха (lěxa, “field bed, furrow”), Old Prussian lyso (“field bed”), Proto-Germanic *lizaną (“to know, understand”), *laizijaną (“teach”), *liʀnōn (“learn”).[2]
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NounEdit
līra f (genitive līrae); first declension[3]
- the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge
- (agriculture) furrow
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | līra | līrae |
Genitive | līrae | līrārum |
Dative | līrae | līrīs |
Accusative | līram | līrās |
Ablative | līrā | līrīs |
Vocative | līra | līrae |
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ReferencesEdit
- “lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lira in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lira in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “līra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 345
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs][1] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 409-410
- ^ “lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Doublet of lire.
NounEdit
lira m (definite singular liraen, indefinite plural liraar or liraer or lira, definite plural liraane or liraene)
- (numismatics) lira (currency of Malta)
- (numismatics) lira (currency of Turkey)
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
lira f
ReferencesEdit
- “lira” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). More at lire.
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NounEdit
līra m (nominative plural līran)
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PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
NounEdit
lira f
- lyre (stringed musical instrument)
- black grouse's tail
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Maltese lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
NounEdit
lira f
- (historical) lira (former unit of currency of Malta)
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Turkish lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
NounEdit
lira f
- lira (currency of Turkey)
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PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
lira f (plural liras)
- lyre (a stringed musical instrument)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
NounEdit
lira f (plural liras)
- lira (unit of currency)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “lira” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French lire, from Latin lyra.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lȋra f
- lyre (musical instrument)
InflectionEdit
Feminine, a-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | líra | ||
gen. sing. | líre | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
líra | líri | líre |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
líre | lír | lír |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
líri | lírama | líram |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
líro | líri | líre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
líri | lírah | lírah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
líro | lírama | lírami |
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
NounEdit
lira f (plural liras)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Italian lira, from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.
NounEdit
lira f (plural liras)
- lira (former currency of Italy)
Further readingEdit
- “lira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
VerbEdit
lira (present lirar, preterite lirade, supine lirat, imperative lira)
- (colloquial) to play (a sport, an instrument or a game)
ConjugationEdit
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | lira | liras | ||
Supine | lirat | lirats | ||
Imperative | lira | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | liren | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | lirar | lirade | liras | lirades |
Ind. plural1 | lira | lirade | liras | lirades |
Subjunctive2 | lire | lirade | lires | lirades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | lirande | |||
Past participle | lirad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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TagalogEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lyre”), from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lira
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Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lira”), from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lira
- lira (former currency of Italy)
Etymology 3Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lirà
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TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish لیره, لیرا, from Italian lira.
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NounEdit
lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)
- Turkish lira.
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | lira | |
Definite accusative | lirayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | lira | liralar |
Definite accusative | lirayı | liraları |
Dative | liraya | liralara |
Locative | lirada | liralarda |
Ablative | liradan | liralardan |
Genitive | liranın | liraların |
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See alsoEdit
- Türk lirası
- liret (Italian lira)
- İtalyan lireti