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ἄλυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλυρος

Structure: ἀλυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/ra

Sense

  1. without the lyre

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἔρωτεσ γὰρ ἔτι πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπιστρέφονται, ψυχαῖσ δ’ ὁμιλοῦντεσ οὐκ εὐφυῶσ οὐδ’ ἑτοίμωσ πρὸσ μουσικὴν ἐχούσαισ, ἄναυλοι μὲν καὶ ἄλυροι λάλοι δ’ οὐδὲν ἧττόν εἰσι καὶ διάπυροι τῶν παλαιῶν· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 238)

Synonyms

  1. without the lyre

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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