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1 λαύρα
Grammatical information: f.Meaning: `narrow street, narrow passage, alley, quarter' (Il.; on the meaning in Hom. Wace JournofHell Stud. 71, 209).Other forms: ion. - ρηCompounds: διάλαυρος οἰκία μεγάλη πανταχόθεν λαύραις διειλημμένη H.Derivatives: From it perh. (after the dugout passages?) Λαύρειον (- εον, - ιον) n. mountain in Attica with famous silvermines (Hdt., Th.); in H. also λαῦρον μέταλλον ἀργύρου παρὰ Άθηναίοις (correct?). Adj. Λαυρε(ι)ωτικός `belonging to Λ.' (Ar.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: The usual connection with λᾶας `stone' is wrong (as this word did not have a -w-; s. v.) and further connected with Alb. lerë, -a `stones etc.'. Doubts already in Schwyzer 481 a. 578 n. 1. The word is no doubt Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 2,91Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > λαύρα
См. также в других словарях:
lēu-2 : lǝu- — lēu 2 : lǝu English meaning: stone Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘stein” Material: Gk. Hom. λᾶας, gen. λᾶος ‘stone” (Ausgleichung from originally *λῆFας; λά̆Fα[σ]ος n.), Att. λᾶας and λᾶς m., gen. λᾱου etc.; Hom. λᾶιγξ, pl. λά̄ιγγες f. “ … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
