Etymology

lyrate

L1Y4R1A1T1E1

Today it means: Shaped like a lyre. Full definition →

New Latin lyrātus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. New Latin · derived fromlyrātus
  2. English todaylyrate

From New Latin lyrātus, from lyra (“lyre”). By surface analysis, lyre + -ate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.