λάφυρα

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.

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

1. spoils taken in war, pillage, booty

   Synonyms: ἕλωρ (hélōr), σκῦλα (skûla)

• Greek: λάφυρο (láfyro)

• “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

λάφυρα • (láfyra) n

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