ὄλυρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin, compare likely cognate Old Armenian ոլոռն (oloṙn); for more see Arabic خُلَّر (ḵullar).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.lyː.ra/ → /ˈo.ly.ra/ → /ˈo.li.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.lyː.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ly.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ly.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ly.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.li.ra/

Noun

ὄλῡρᾰ • (ólūra) f (genitive ὀλῡ́ρης); first declension

1. A kind of grain, probably spelt

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄλῡρᾰ; τῆς ὀλῡ́ρης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄλῡρᾰ hē ólūra	τὼ ὀλῡ́ρᾱ tṑ olū́rā	αἱ ὄλῡραι hai ólūrai
Genitive	τῆς ὀλῡ́ρης tês olū́rēs	τοῖν ὀλῡ́ραιν toîn olū́rain	τῶν ὀλῡρῶν tôn olūrôn
Dative	τῇ ὀλῡ́ρῃ têi olū́rēi	τοῖν ὀλῡ́ραιν toîn olū́rain	ταῖς ὀλῡ́ραις taîs olū́rais
Accusative	τὴν ὄλῡρᾰν tḕn ólūran	τὼ ὀλῡ́ρᾱ tṑ olū́rā	τᾱ̀ς ὀλῡ́ρᾱς tā̀s olū́rās
Vocative	ὄλῡρᾰ ólūra	ὀλῡ́ρᾱ olū́rā	ὄλῡραι ólūrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀλῡρίτης (olūrítēs)
• ὀλῡ́ρινος (olū́rinos)
• ὀλῡροκόπος (olūrokópos)

Descendants

• Latin: olȳra

References

• “ὄλυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄλυρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN