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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin, compare likely cognate Old Armenian ոլոռն (oloṙn); for more see Arabic خُلَّر (ḵullar).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.lyː.ra/ → /ˈo.ly.ra/ → /ˈo.li.ra/
Noun
ὄλῡρᾰ • (ólūra) f (genitive ὀλῡ́ρης); first declension
- A kind of grain, probably spelt
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References
- “ὄλυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄλυρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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