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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

  • πρὸσ δὲ δὴ μαθήματα ἄλυρα ποιητῶν κείμενα ἐν γράμμασι, τοῖσ μὲν μετὰ μέτρων, τοῖσ δ’ ἄνευ ῥυθμῶν τμημάτων, ἃ δὴ συγγράμματα κατὰ λόγον εἰρημένα μόνον, τητώμενα ῥυθμοῦ τε καὶ ἁρμονίασ, σφαλερὰ γράμμαθ’ ἡμῖν ἐστιν παρά τινων τῶν πολλῶν τοιούτων ἀνθρώπων καταλελειμμένα· (Plato, Laws, book 7 138:3)

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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