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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from λαπαρός (laparós, “slack; hollow”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.pá.raː/ → /laˈpa.ra/ → /laˈpa.ra/
Noun
λᾰπάρᾱ • (lapárā) f (genitive λᾰπάρᾱς); first declension
- flank (flesh between the last rib and the hip)
- Synonyms: κενεών (keneṓn), λαγών (lagṓn)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “λαπάρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λαπάρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λαπάρη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λαπάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press