λίτρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A Mediterranean substrate word surviving also in Latin libra. Compare the morphology of Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr).
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
- libra, a unit of weight
- Palatine Anthology 6.214
- Palatine Anthology 10.97
- a box for holding libras
- Synonym: λιτροδόκη (litrodókē)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈtɾa/
- Hyphenation: λί‧τρα
- Homophone: λύτρα (lýtra)
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