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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula. · A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Borrowed from Latin Lyra/lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra, “a lyre; the constellation Lyra”). Doublet of lira, lyra, and lyre.
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