λάφυρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally viewed as a suffix -ρ-, added to a u-stem from the root of Sanskrit लभते (labhate, “to take, seize”). Beekes considers the suffix -ῡρ- to be Pre-Greek, and accordingly the word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lá.pʰyː.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈla.pʰy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.ɸy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.fy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.fi.ra/
Noun
λᾰ́φῡρᾰ • (lắphūră) n pl (genitive λᾰφῡ́ρων); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | τᾰ̀ λᾰ́φῡρᾰ tằ lắphūră | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῶν λᾰφῡ́ρων tôn lăphū́rōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τοῖς λᾰφῡ́ροις toîs lăphū́rois | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τᾰ̀ λᾰ́φῡρᾰ tằ lắphūră | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | λᾰ́φῡρᾰ lắphūră | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λαφυραγωγός (laphuragōgós)
- λαφυρεύω (laphureúō)
- λαφυροπώλης (laphuropṓlēs)
Descendants
- Greek: λάφυρο (láfyro)
Further reading
- “λάφυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λάφυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λάφυρα 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
Greek
Noun
λάφυρα • (láfyra) n
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of λάφυρο (láfyro)