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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Liparus, name of a mythical founder, which could be of local substrate origin.[1] However, compare λιπαρός (liparós, “rich, fat”), which could have been a nickname.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.pá.raː/ → /liˈpa.ra/ → /liˈpa.ra/
Proper noun
Λῐπᾰ́ρᾱ • (Lipárā) f (genitive Λῐπᾰ́ρᾱς); first declension
- Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: Λιπάρα f (Lipára, “Lipara”)
References
- “Λιπάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Λιπάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015
- ^ Leighton, Robert (2014): Morgantina Studies, Volume IV: The Protohistoric Settlement on the Cittadella, p. 153