lyristes Latin · revision 36983

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=61/62–before 117 AD, Pliny the Younger|origins=grc λυριστής}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [lyˈrɪs.teːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [liˈris.tes]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lyristēs''' ''m'' (genitive lyristae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|λυριστής|tr=luristḗs|t=lyre player]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) which goes with [[m|grc|λύρα|tr=lúra|t=lyre]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in the letters of Pliny the Younger,^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) for a lyre player who entertained at dinner: Pliny writes to a friend that at his dinner he would have heard comic actors, a reader or a lyre player (''comoedos vel lectorem vel lyristen'').^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Pliny names the ''lyristes'' several times beside the reader and the comic actor among the entertainments of a dinner.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) In the 5th century Sidonius Apollinaris uses it of a lyric poet.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Georges 1913) Medieval glossaries equate it with [[lyricen]], [[citharista]] and [[citharoedus]].^(DMLBS) English [[m|en|lyrist]] (1650s) came from it through French ''lyriste''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 61/62–before 117 AD – Pliny the Younger uses it of a lyre player at dinner.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius Apollinaris uses it of a lyric poet.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1650s – English borrows it, through French, as ''lyrist''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A player of the [[m|en|lyre]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|lyric]] poet.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lyra]]

+ * [[lyristria]]

+ * [[en|lyrist]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}