θόλος
See also: θολός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
According to Beekes, the comparison with Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley”) and Proto-Slavic *dȏlъ (“valley”) should be discarded. The connection with θάλαμος (thálamos, “bedroom”) makes more sense and would lead to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰó.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰo.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθo.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθo.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθo.los/
Noun edit
θόλος • (thólos) f (genitive θόλου); second declension
- (architecture) A round building with conical roof, a rotunda
- A vaulted steam bath
- A bandage for the head invented by Diocles
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θόλος hē thólos |
τὼ θόλω tṑ thólō |
αἱ θόλοι hai thóloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θόλου tês thólou |
τοῖν θόλοιν toîn thóloin |
τῶν θόλων tôn thólōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θόλῳ têi thólōi |
τοῖν θόλοιν toîn thóloin |
ταῖς θόλοις taîs thólois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θόλον tḕn thólon |
τὼ θόλω tṑ thólō |
τᾱ̀ς θόλους tā̀s thólous | ||||||||||
Vocative | θόλε thóle |
θόλω thólō |
θόλοι thóloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “θόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θόλος 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
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek, thence uncertain, but, according to Beekes, possibly cognate with θάλαμος (thálamos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
θόλος • (thólos) m (plural θόλοι)
Declension edit
declension of θόλος
Synonyms edit
- τρούλος m (troúlos)
Further reading edit
- Τρούλος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el