λυτήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λύ(ω) (lú(ō), “loosen”) +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr, a suffix creating agent nouns)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ly.tɛ̌ːr/ → /lyˈtir/ → /liˈtir/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ly.tɛ̌ːr/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /lyˈte̝r/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /lyˈtir/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lyˈtir/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈtir/

Noun

λυτήρ • (lutḗr) m (genitive λῠτῆρος); third declension (λύτειρα f (lúteira))

1. one who looses, deliverer

Declension

Third declension of ὁ λῠτήρ; τοῦ λῠτῆρος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λῠτήρ ho lutḗr	τὼ λῠτῆρε tṑ lutêre	οἱ λῠτῆρες hoi lutêres
Genitive	τοῦ λῠτῆρος toû lutêros	τοῖν λῠτήροιν toîn lutḗroin	τῶν λῠτήρων tôn lutḗrōn
Dative	τῷ λῠτῆρῐ tôi lutêri	τοῖν λῠτήροιν toîn lutḗroin	τοῖς λῠτῆρσῐ / λῠτῆρσῐν toîs lutêrsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν λῠτῆρᾰ tòn lutêra	τὼ λῠτῆρε tṑ lutêre	τοὺς λῠτῆρᾰς toùs lutêras
Vocative	λῠτήρ lutḗr	λῠτῆρε lutêre	λῠτῆρες lutêres
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal 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 [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011