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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally viewed as a suffix -ρ-, added to a u-stem from the root of Sanskrit लभते (labhate, “to take, seize”). Beekes considers the suffix -ῡρ- to be Pre-Greek, and accordingly the word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lá.pʰyː.ra/ → /ˈla.ɸy.ra/ → /ˈla.fi.ra/
Noun
λᾰ́φῡρᾰ • (láphūra) n pl (genitive λᾰφῡ́ρων); second declension
- spoils taken in war, pillage, booty
- Synonyms: ἕλωρ (hélōr), σκῦλα (skûla)
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Descendants
Further reading
- “λάφυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λάφυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λάφυρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
λάφυρα • (láfyra) n
- Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of λάφυρο (láfyro).