ὄλυρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.ly.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/

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Noun

ὄλυρᾰ • (ólura) f (genitive ὀλύρης); first declension

A kind of grain, probably spelt

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄλυρᾰ; τῆς ὀλύρης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄλυρᾰ hē ólura	τὼ ὀλύρᾱ tṑ olúrā	αἱ ὄλυραι hai ólurai
Genitive	τῆς ὀλύρης tês olúrēs	τοῖν ὀλύραιν toîn olúrain	τῶν ὀλυρῶν tôn olurôn
Dative	τῇ ὀλύρῃ têi olúrēi	τοῖν ὀλύραιν toîn olúrain	ταῖς ὀλύραις taîs olúrais
Accusative	τὴν ὄλυρᾰν tḕn óluran	τὼ ὀλύρᾱ tṑ olúrā	τᾱ̀ς ὀλύρᾱς tā̀s olúrās
Vocative	ὄλυρᾰ ólura	ὀλύρᾱ olúrā	ὄλυραι ólurai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ὀλυρίτης (olurítēs)
ὀλύρινος (olúrinos)
ὀλυροκόπος (olurokópos)

Descendants

Latin: olyra

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, 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

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