Greek

Alternative forms

• Λάουρα ‎(Láoura)
• Λώρα ‎(Lóra)

Proper noun

Λαύρα • ‎(Lávra) f

1. A female given name: Laura

Declension

External links

• Αγία Λαύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• λαύρη ‎(laúrē) (Epic, Ionic)

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lávra/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lávɾa/

Noun

λαύρᾱ • ‎(laúrā) f ‎(genitive λαύρᾱς); first declension

1. alley, lane, passage
2. bazaar
3. avenue
4. block of houses surrounded by streets, ward, town quarter
5. (in the plural) privy, sewer

Declension

Synonyms

• (city block): ἄμφοδον ‎(ámphodon)

Descendants

• Late Latin: laura
  • English: laura

Derived terms

• λαυροστᾰ́ται ‎(laurostátai)

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alley idem, page 23.