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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of Pre-Greek origin, according to Beekes.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lǎu̯.raː/ → /ˈla.βra/ → /ˈla.vra/
Noun
λαύρᾱ • (laúrā) f (genitive λαύρᾱς); first declension
- alley, lane, passage
- bazaar
- avenue
- block of houses surrounded by streets, ward, town quarter
- (in the plural) privy, sewer
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References
- “λαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λαύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λαύρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.