λύτρον
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λύω (lúō, “to set free, release”) + -τρον (-tron, “a suffix forming instrument nouns”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.tron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.tron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.tron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.tron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.tron/
Noun
λῠ́τρον • (lútron) n (genitive λῠ́τρου); second declension
- price of release, ransom
- sum paid for redemption of a pledge
- atonement, expiation
- (in general) recompense
- loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris)
- Synonym: λυσιμάχειον (lusimákheion)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ λῠ́τρον tò lútron |
τὼ λῠ́τρω tṑ lútrō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́τρᾰ tà lútra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λῠ́τρου toû lútrou |
τοῖν λῠ́τροιν toîn lútroin |
τῶν λῠ́τρων tôn lútrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λῠ́τρῳ tôi lútrōi |
τοῖν λῠ́τροιν toîn lútroin |
τοῖς λῠ́τροις toîs lútrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ λῠ́τρον tò lútron |
τὼ λῠ́τρω tṑ lútrō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́τρᾰ tà lútra | ||||||||||
Vocative | λῠ́τρον lútron |
λῠ́τρω lútrō |
λῠ́τρᾰ lútra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λυτρόω (lutróō)
Further reading
- “λύτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λύτρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λύτρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τρον
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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