λύτειρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λῠ(τήρ) (lŭ(tḗr), “who loosens, literator”) +‎ -τειρα (-teira, a suffix creating feminine agent nouns)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈly.ti.ra/ → /ˈli.ti.ra/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ti.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ti.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ti.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ti.ra/

Noun

λῠ́τειρᾰ • (lŭ́teiră) f (genitive λῠτείρᾱς); first declension (Koine)

1. feminine of λῠτήρ (lŭtḗr)

Declension

First declension of ἡ λῠ́τειρᾰ; τῆς λῠτείρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λῠ́τειρᾰ hē lŭ́teiră	τὼ λῠτείρᾱ tṑ lŭteírā	αἱ λῠ́τειραι hai lŭ́teirai
Genitive	τῆς λῠτείρᾱς tês lŭteírās	τοῖν λῠτείραιν toîn lŭteírain	τῶν λῠτειρῶν tôn lŭteirôn
Dative	τῇ λῠτείρᾳ têi lŭteírāi	τοῖν λῠτείραιν toîn lŭteírain	ταῖς λῠτείραις taîs lŭteírais
Accusative	τὴν λῠ́τειρᾰν tḕn lŭ́teirăn	τὼ λῠτείρᾱ tṑ lŭteírā	τᾱ̀ς λῠτείρᾱς tā̀s lŭteírās
Vocative	λῠ́τειρᾰ lŭ́teiră	λῠτείρᾱ lŭteírā	λῠ́τειραι lŭ́teirai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “λύτειρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λύτειρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “λύτειρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011