- λαύρα
- λαύραGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `narrow street, narrow passage, alley, quarter' (Il.; on the meaning in Hom. Wace JournofHell Stud. 71, 209).Other forms: ion. -ρηCompounds: διάλαυρος οἰκία μεγάλη πανταχόθεν λαύραις διειλημμένη H.Derivatives: From it perh. (after the dugout passages?) Λαύρειον (-εον, -ιον) n. mountain in Attica with famous silvermines (Hdt., Th.); in H. also λαῦρον μέταλλον ἀργύρου παρὰ Άθηναίοις (correct?). Adj. Λαυρε(ι)ωτικός `belonging to Λ.' (Ar.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: The usual connection with λᾶας `stone' is wrong (as this word did not have a -w-; s. v.) and further connected with Alb. lerë, -a `stones etc.'. Doubts already in Schwyzer 481 a. 578 n. 1. The word is no doubt Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,91
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.