λίτρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A Mediterranean substrate word surviving also in Latin libra.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lǐː.traː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.tra/
Noun
λῑ́τρᾱ • (lī́trā) f (genitive λῑ́τρᾱς); first declension
- litra, a Sicilian silver coin
- Epicharumus 5
- Sophron 26
- Diphilus, The Sicilian 1
- Posidippus Comicus, The Gaul 2
- Aristotle, Fragments 436
- libra, a unit of weight
- Palatine Anthology 6.214
- Polybius, Histories 22.26.19
- Palatine Anthology 10.97
- a box for holding libras
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λῑ́τρᾱ hē lī́trā |
τὼ λῑ́τρᾱ tṑ lī́trā |
αἱ λῖτραι hai lîtrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λῑ́τρᾱς tês lī́trās |
τοῖν λῑ́τραιν toîn lī́train |
τῶν λῑτρῶν tôn lītrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λῑ́τρᾳ têi lī́trāi |
τοῖν λῑ́τραιν toîn lī́train |
ταῖς λῑ́τραις taîs lī́trais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λῑ́τρᾱν tḕn lī́trān |
τὼ λῑ́τρᾱ tṑ lī́trā |
τᾱ̀ς λῑ́τρᾱς tā̀s lī́trās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῑ́τρᾱ lī́trā |
λῑ́τρᾱ lī́trā |
λῖτραι lîtrai | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (box): λιτροδόκη (litrodókē)
Descendants
References
- λίτρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λίτρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λίτρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3046 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- λίτρα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Greek
Etymology 1
Noun
λίτρα • (lítra) n
- Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of λίτρο (lítro).
Etymology 2
Noun
λίτρα • (lítra) f (plural λίτρες)
- Obsolete form of λίτρο (lítro).
Declension
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