Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗to play the lyre
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. · Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute. · A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical. · A composer of lyric poetry.
From Middle English lire (13th c.), from Old French lire, from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira, lyra, and Lyra.
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