Ancient Greek

Noun

λῠ́ρᾰ • ‎(lúra) f ‎(genitive λῠ́ρᾱς or λῠ́ρης); first declension

1. lyre
2. lyric poetry and music
3. the constellation Lyra
4. a sea-fish, perhaps a piper gurnard

Inflection

References

• 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • guitar idem, page 379.
  • harp idem, page 386.
  • lyre idem, page 506.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύρα ‎(lúra).

Noun

λύρα • ‎(lýra) f ‎(plural λύρες)

1. lyre

Declension

External links

• λύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el