"λύρα" meaning in Ancient Greek

See λύρα in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /lý.raː/, /ˈly.ra/, /ˈli.ra/, /lý.raː/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈly.ra/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈly.ra/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈly.ra/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈli.ra/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: A Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate technical loan. Indo-European etymologies are unlikely. Etymology templates: {{der|grc|qsb-grc|-}} Pre-Greek, {{der|grc|qfa-sub|-}} substrate Head templates: {{grc-noun|λῠ́ρᾱς|f|first|head=λῠ́ρᾱ}} λῠ́ρᾱ • (lŭ́rā) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|λῠ́ρᾱ|λῠ́ρᾱς}} Forms: λῠ́ρᾱ [canonical], lŭ́rā [romanization], λῠ́ρᾱς [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ [nominative, singular], λῠ́ρᾱ [dual, nominative], αἱ λῠ́ραι [nominative, plural], τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς [genitive, singular], λῠ́ραιν [dual, genitive], λῠρῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ λῠ́ρᾳ [dative, singular], λῠ́ραιν [dative, dual], ταῖς λῠ́ραις [dative, plural], τὴν λῠ́ρᾱν [accusative, singular], λῠ́ρᾱ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς [accusative, plural], λῠ́ρᾱ [singular, vocative], λῠ́ρᾱ [dual, vocative], λῠ́ραι [plural, vocative], λύρη [alternative, Ionic]
  1. lyre, string instrument with a sounding board formed of a shell of a tortoise
    Sense id: en-λύρα-grc-noun-Jp5FEP51
  2. lyric poetry and music
    Sense id: en-λύρα-grc-noun-qLlCD26U
  3. (astronomy) Lyra, a constellation
    Sense id: en-λύρα-grc-noun-nJVUKw8Q Categories (other): Constellations, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 15 13 42 30 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
  4. piper gurnard (Trigla lyra)
    Sense id: en-λύρα-grc-noun--yteDnJu Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Fish, Musical instruments Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 22 7 31 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 23 2 33 42 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 1 21 51 Disambiguation of Fish: 14 0 15 71 Disambiguation of Musical instruments: 30 5 17 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 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)
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "antíluros",
      "word": "ἀντίλυρος"
    },
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      "roman": "lurikós",
      "word": "λυρικός"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "lúrion",
      "word": "λύριον"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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    },
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      "roman": "luródmētos",
      "word": "λυρόδμητος"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "word": "λυρόεις"
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    {
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    },
    {
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      "word": "λυροφοῖνιξ"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "roman": "lurṓdēs",
      "word": "λυρώδης"
    },
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      "roman": "lurōidós",
      "word": "λυρῳδός"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "lyre",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: lyre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: lyre"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "λύρα"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: λύρα (lýra)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: λύρα (lýra)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "lyra",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: lyra",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: lyra (see there for further descendants)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "goh",
            "2": "līra",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Old High German: līra",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old High German: līra"
    },
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      "depth": 2,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Leier",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Leier",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Leier"
    }
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      },
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    },
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  "etymology_text": "A Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate technical loan. Indo-European etymologies are unlikely.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lŭ́rā",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "table-tags"
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      "form": "grc-decl",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "hē lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
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        "nominative"
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      "form": "αἱ λῠ́ραι",
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς",
      "roman": "tês lŭ́rās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ραιν",
      "roman": "lŭ́rain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠρῶν",
      "roman": "lŭrôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ λῠ́ρᾳ",
      "roman": "têi lŭ́rāi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "λῠ́ραιν",
      "roman": "lŭ́rain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς λῠ́ραις",
      "roman": "taîs lŭ́rais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν λῠ́ρᾱν",
      "roman": "tḕn lŭ́rān",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s lŭ́rās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ραι",
      "roman": "lŭ́rai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λύρη",
      "roman": "lúrē",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ionic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      },
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      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "λῠ́ρᾱς"
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  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lyre, string instrument with a sounding board formed of a shell of a tortoise"
      ],
      "id": "en-λύρα-grc-noun-Jp5FEP51",
      "links": [
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          "lyre"
        ],
        [
          "string instrument",
          "string instrument"
        ],
        [
          "sounding board",
          "sounding board"
        ],
        [
          "shell",
          "shell"
        ],
        [
          "tortoise",
          "tortoise"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lyric poetry and music"
      ],
      "id": "en-λύρα-grc-noun-qLlCD26U",
      "links": [
        [
          "lyric poetry",
          "lyric poetry"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Constellations",
          "orig": "grc:Constellations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 13 42 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "Lyra, a constellation"
      ],
      "id": "en-λύρα-grc-noun-nJVUKw8Q",
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        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "Lyra",
          "Lyra"
        ],
        [
          "constellation",
          "constellation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) Lyra, a constellation"
      ],
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        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "22 7 31 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "23 2 33 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 1 21 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 0 15 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Fish",
          "orig": "grc:Fish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 5 17 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Musical instruments",
          "orig": "grc:Musical instruments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "piper gurnard (Trigla lyra)"
      ],
      "id": "en-λύρα-grc-noun--yteDnJu",
      "links": [
        [
          "piper gurnard",
          "piper gurnard"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lý.raː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈli.ra/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lý.raː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈli.ra/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "λύρα"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Ancient Greek first-declension nouns",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek paroxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from substrate languages",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "grc:Fish",
    "grc:Musical instruments"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "antíluros",
      "word": "ἀντίλυρος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurízō",
      "word": "λυρίζω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurikós",
      "word": "λυρικός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lúrion",
      "word": "λύριον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurismós",
      "word": "λυρισμός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luristḗs",
      "word": "λυριστής"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurogēthḗs",
      "word": "λυρογηθής"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luródmētos",
      "word": "λυρόδμητος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luróeis",
      "word": "λυρόεις"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luroergós",
      "word": "λυροεργός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurothelgḗs",
      "word": "λυροθελγής"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luróktupos",
      "word": "λυρόκτυπος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "luropoiós",
      "word": "λυροποιός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurophoînix",
      "word": "λυροφοῖνιξ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurṓdēs",
      "word": "λυρώδης"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurōidós",
      "word": "λυρῳδός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lurōnía",
      "word": "λυρωνία"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "lyre",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: lyre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: lyre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "λύρα"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: λύρα (lýra)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: λύρα (lýra)"
    },
    {
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        {
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            "1": "la",
            "2": "lyra",
            "bor": "1"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "goh",
            "2": "līra",
            "bor": "1"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Old High German: līra"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Leier",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Leier",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Leier"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "A Mediterranean Pre-Greek substrate technical loan. Indo-European etymologies are unlikely.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lŭ́rā",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "inflection-template"
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    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "hē lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ λῠ́ραι",
      "roman": "hai lŭ́rai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς λῠ́ρᾱς",
      "roman": "tês lŭ́rās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ραιν",
      "roman": "lŭ́rain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠρῶν",
      "roman": "lŭrôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ λῠ́ρᾳ",
      "roman": "têi lŭ́rāi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ραιν",
      "roman": "lŭ́rain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς λῠ́ραις",
      "roman": "taîs lŭ́rais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν λῠ́ρᾱν",
      "roman": "tḕn lŭ́rān",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς λῠ́ρᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s lŭ́rās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
      "roman": "lŭ́rā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λῠ́ραι",
      "roman": "lŭ́rai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "λύρη",
      "roman": "lúrē",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ionic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "λῠ́ρᾱς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
        "head": "λῠ́ρᾱ"
      },
      "expansion": "λῠ́ρᾱ • (lŭ́rā) f (genitive λῠ́ρᾱς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "λῠ́ρᾱ",
        "2": "λῠ́ρᾱς"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lyre, string instrument with a sounding board formed of a shell of a tortoise"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lyre",
          "lyre"
        ],
        [
          "string instrument",
          "string instrument"
        ],
        [
          "sounding board",
          "sounding board"
        ],
        [
          "shell",
          "shell"
        ],
        [
          "tortoise",
          "tortoise"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "lyric poetry and music"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lyric poetry",
          "lyric poetry"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Constellations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lyra, a constellation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "Lyra",
          "Lyra"
        ],
        [
          "constellation",
          "constellation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) Lyra, a constellation"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "piper gurnard (Trigla lyra)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "piper gurnard",
          "piper gurnard"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lý.raː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈli.ra/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/lý.raː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈly.ra/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈli.ra/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "λύρα"
}

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