λάφυρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally viewed as a suffix -ρ-, added to a u-stem from the root of Sanskrit लभते (labhate, “to take, seize”). Beekes considers the suffix -ῡρ- to be Pre-Greek, and accordingly the word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.pʰyː.ra/ → /ˈla.ɸy.ra/ → /ˈla.fi.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.pʰyː.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pʰy.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ɸy.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.fy.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.fi.ra/

Noun

λᾰ́φῡρᾰ • (láphūra) n pl (genitive λᾰφῡ́ρων); second declension

1. spoils taken in war, pillage, booty

   Synonyms: ἕλωρ (hélōr), σκῦλα (skûla)

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ λᾰ́φῡρᾰ; τῶν λᾰφῡ́ρων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ λᾰ́φῡρᾰ tà láphūra
Genitive	τῶν λᾰφῡ́ρων tôn laphū́rōn
Dative	τοῖς λᾰφῡ́ροις toîs laphū́rois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ λᾰ́φῡρᾰ tà láphūra
Vocative	λᾰ́φῡρᾰ láphūra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λαφυραγωγός (laphuragōgós)
• λαφυρεύω (laphureúō)
• λαφυροπώλης (laphuropṓlēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: λάφυρο (láfyro)

Further reading

• “λάφυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λάφυρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λάφυρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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

Greek

Noun

λάφυρα • (láfyra) n

1. Nominative, accusative and vocative plural form of λάφυρο (láfyro).