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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λύ(ω) (lú(ō), “loosen”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, a suffix creating agent nouns)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ly.tɛ̌ːr/ → /lyˈtir/ → /liˈtir/
Noun
λυτήρ • (lutḗr) m (genitive λῠτῆρος); third declension (λύτειρα f (lúteira))
- one who looses, deliverer
Declension
Further reading
- “λυτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λυτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λυτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “λυτήρ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011