lyristes

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λυριστής (luristḗs).

Pronunciation

Noun

lyristēs m (genitive lyristae); first declension

  1. lute-player, lyrist

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lyristēs lyristae
Genitive lyristae lyristārum
Dative lyristae lyristīs
Accusative lyristēn lyristās
Ablative lyristē lyristīs
Vocative lyristē lyristae

Descendants

  • >? English: lyrist
  • Italian: lirista
  • → Translingual: Lyristes

References

  • “lyristes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lyristes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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