δάκρυ, τό,
used by Poets for the sake of meter for δάκρυον in singular δάκρυ and dative plural δάκρυσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.570, etc.: _dative_ _plural_ sometimes in Prose, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 30.32, “Eu/.Luc.” 7.38: _plural_, δάκρη “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 1.121 (conjecture Bgk. in 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 122.3, compare δάκρυον 2)] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—tear, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.266, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.114, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 638, etc.; τοῦ ὅ γε δ. χέων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.24. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II generally, drop, λιβάνου [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; δ. πεύκινον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1200 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf.Latin lacruma, Gothic tagr, O[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] tear.)