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語源

From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira and Lyra.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ.ə/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/, /laɪɹ/
  • 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)
  • 異形同音異義語: liar, lier, lire

名詞

lyre (複数形 lyres)

1. An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
   1. Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
2. A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
3. (obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.

同意語

• (a general class of instruments): yoke lute

派生語

• lyre snake

関連する語

• Lyra
• lyrebird
• lyrical

参照

• 2012. Kisir and Tanbura. Dahab Khalil and Artur Simon. Pg. 96.
• 2007. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments. Jeremy Montagu. Pg. 128.

動詞

lyre (三人称単数 現在形 lyres, 現在分詞 lyring, 過去形および過去分詞形 lyred)

1. (rare) to play the lyre
   • 1922, Thomas Hardy, “Penance”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

     Alas, far times ago / A woman lyred here / In the evenfall; one who fain did so / From year to year; / And, in loneliness bending wistfully, / Would wake each note / In sick sad rote, / None to listen or see!

参考

• harp

Further reading

• “lyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lyre”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Ryle, rely