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λυρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυρικός λυρική λυρικόν

Structure: λυρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for the lyre, lyric
  2. a lyrist

Examples

  • τραγικὸσ καὶ λυρικὸσ καὶ φιλόσοφοσ, υἱὸσ Ὀρφονένουσ, ἐπίκλησιν δὲ Ξούθου. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section9)
  • δεύτεροσ ποιητὴσ λυρικόσ, οὗ ἐστι τῶν δώδεκα θεῶν ἐγκώμιον· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. a'. HRAKLEITOS 17:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or for 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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