λύθρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λύθρος (lúthros)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt”), the same root of λῦμα (lûma, “dirt”), Latin lutum (“mire, mud”) and Albanian lym (“loam, clay”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.θron/
Noun
λύθρον • (lúthron) n (genitive λύθρου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῠ́θρον tò lŭ́thron |
τὼ λῠ́θρω tṑ lŭ́thrō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́θρᾰ tằ lŭ́thră | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῠ́θρου toû lŭ́throu |
τοῖν λῠ́θροιν toîn lŭ́throin |
τῶν λῠ́θρων tôn lŭ́thrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῠ́θρῳ tōî lŭ́thrōi |
τοῖν λῠ́θροιν toîn lŭ́throin |
τοῖς λῠ́θροις toîs lŭ́throis | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῠ́θρον tò lŭ́thron |
τὼ λῠ́θρω tṑ lŭ́thrō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́θρᾰ tằ lŭ́thră | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠ́θρον lŭ́thron |
λῠ́θρω lŭ́thrō |
λῠ́θρᾰ lŭ́thră | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λυθρόω (luthróō)
- λυθρώδης (luthrṓdēs)
Descendants
- Translingual: Lythrum
Further reading
- “λύθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λύθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λύθρον 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