λῠρα

λῠ́ρα

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `lyre', four(seven)stringed instrument, like the cithara (h. Merc. 423; Zumbach Neuerungen 11);

Other forms: Ion. λύρη

Compounds: compp., e.g. λυροποιός `lyre-maker' (Pl.), ἀντί-λυρος `like the lyre' (S.).

Derivatives: Diminut. λύριον (Ar.), λυρίς (Hdn. Gr.); further λυρικός `belonging to the lyre, lyre-player' (Phld., Plu.); λυρίζω `play the lyre' (Chrysipp.; cf. Schwyzer 736; for it mostly κιθαρίζω, s.v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 167 n. 1) with λυριστής `lyreplayer' (Plin.), -ίστρια f. (sch.), -ισμός `playing the lyre' (sch.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Technical LW [loanword] from the Mediterr. area; cf. on κιθάρα. IE etymologies in Fick 2, 237 (s. Bq and WP. 2, 406). Acc. to Grošelj, Živa Ant. 5,329. here also λυρτός, Epeirotic word for σκύφος (Seleuc. ap. Ath. 11, 500b), very uncertain. - Lat. LW [loanword] lyra; OHG līra \> Leier etc.

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