λαύρα
See also: Λαύρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of Pre-Greek origin, according to Beekes.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lǎu̯.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlaw.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.βra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.vra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.vra/
Noun
λαύρᾱ • (laúrā) f (genitive λαύρᾱς); first declension
- alley, lane, passage
- bazaar
- avenue
- block of houses surrounded by streets, ward, town quarter
- (in the plural) privy, sewer
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λαύρᾱ hē laúrā |
τὼ λαύρᾱ tṑ laúrā |
αἱ λαῦραι hai laûrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λαύρᾱς tês laúrās |
τοῖν λαύραιν toîn laúrain |
τῶν λαυρῶν tôn laurôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λαύρᾳ tēî laúrāi |
τοῖν λαύραιν toîn laúrain |
ταῖς λαύραις taîs laúrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λαύρᾱν tḕn laúrān |
τὼ λαύρᾱ tṑ laúrā |
τᾱ̀ς λαύρᾱς tā̀s laúrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λαύρᾱ laúrā |
λαύρᾱ laúrā |
λαῦραι laûrai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (city block): ἄμφοδον (ámphodon)
Derived terms
- λαυροστᾰ́ται (laurostắtai)
Descendants
References
- “λαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λαύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λαύρα”, 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.
- alley idem, page 25.
- ^ 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