λυγρός

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

Presumably from Proto-Indo-European *luǵrós, from *lewǵ-. Apparently related to λευγαλέος (leugaléos, wretched, unhappy). Cognate with Latin lūgeō.

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

λῠγρός (lugrósm (feminine λῠγρᾱ́, neuter λῠγρόν); first/second declension

  1. sore, baneful, mournful
  2. (of persons) baneful, mischievous

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Further reading

  • λυγρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • λυγρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • λυγρός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • λυγρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • λυγρός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • λυγρός”, 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.
  • 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