λύρα

See also: Λύρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

λύρη (lúrē) — Ionic

Etymology

A Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate technical loan. Indo-European etymologies are unlikely.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lý.raː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ra/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ra/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ra/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/

Noun

λῠ́ρᾱ • (lŭ́rā) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς); first declension

lyre, string instrument with a sounding board formed of a shell of a tortoise
lyric poetry and music
(astronomy) Lyra, a constellation
piper gurnard (Trigla lyra)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ; τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ hē lŭ́rā	τὼ λῠ́ρᾱ tṑ lŭ́rā	αἱ λῠ́ραι hai lŭ́rai
Genitive	τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς tês lŭ́rās	τοῖν λῠ́ραιν toîn lŭ́rain	τῶν λῠρῶν tôn lŭrôn
Dative	τῇ λῠ́ρᾳ tēî lŭ́rāi	τοῖν λῠ́ραιν toîn lŭ́rain	ταῖς λῠ́ραις taîs lŭ́rais
Accusative	τὴν λῠ́ρᾱν tḕn lŭ́rān	τὼ λῠ́ρᾱ tṑ lŭ́rā	τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s lŭ́rās
Vocative	λῠ́ρᾱ lŭ́rā	λῠ́ρᾱ lŭ́rā	λῠ́ραι lŭ́rai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀντίλυρος (antíluros)
λυρίζω (lurízō)
λυρικός (lurikós)
λύριον (lúrion)
λυρισμός (lurismós)
λυριστής (luristḗs)
λυρογηθής (lurogēthḗs)
λυρόδμητος (luródmētos)
λυρόεις (luróeis)
λυροεργός (luroergós)
λυροθελγής (lurothelgḗs)
λυρόκτυπος (luróktupos)
λυροποιός (luropoiós)
λυροφοῖνιξ (lurophoînix)
λυρώδης (lurṓdēs)
λυρῳδός (lurōidós)
λυρωνία (lurōnía)

Descendants

→ English: lyre
Greek: λύρα (lýra)
→ Latin: lyra (see there for further descendants)
→ Old High German: līra
- → German: Leier

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λῠ́ρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 879

Further reading

“λύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“λύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
λύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“λύρα”, 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.
- guitar idem, page 379.
- harp idem, page 386.
- lyre idem, page 506.
λύρα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈli.ɾa/
Rhymes: -iɾa
Hyphenation: λύ‧ρα

Noun

λύρα • (lýra) f (plural λύρες)

lyre

Declension

Declension of **λύρα**
	singular	plural
nominative	λύρα (lýra)	λύρες (lýres)
genitive	λύρας (lýras)	λυρών (lyrón)
accusative	λύρα (lýra)	λύρες (lýres)
vocative	λύρα (lýra)	λύρες (lýres)

Further reading

λύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el