μανδήλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μαντήλα (mantḗla), μαντῆλα (mantêla)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /manˈdi.li/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /manˈdi.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /manˈdi.li/

Noun

μανδήλη • (mandḗlē) f (genitive μανδήλης); first declension

1. (Byzantine) towel

Declension

First declension of ἡ μανδήλη; τῆς μανδήλης (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μανδήλη hē mandḗlē	αἱ μανδῆλαι hai mandêlai
Genitive	τῆς μανδήλης tês mandḗlēs	τῶν μανδηλῶν tôn mandēlôn
Dative	τῇ μανδήλῃ têi mandḗlēi	ταῖς μανδήλαις taîs mandḗlais
Accusative	τὴν μανδήλην tḕn mandḗlēn	τᾱ̀ς μανδήλᾱς tā̀s mandḗlās
Vocative	μανδήλη mandḗlē	μανδῆλαι mandêlai

Derived terms

• μανδέλλιον (mandéllion)
• μανδήλιν (mandḗlin)
• μανδήλιον (mandḗlion)
• μανδίλιον (mandílion)
• μανδύλιον (mandúlion)
• μαντίλιον (mantílion)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: μαντήλα (mantíla)
• → Arabic: مَنْدِيل (mandīl) (see there for further descendants)
• → Classical Syriac: ܡܰܢܕܝ݇ܠܴܐ (mandīlā)
• → Old Armenian: մանդիլ (mandil)
• → Old Georgian: მანდილი (mandili)
  • Georgian: მანდილი (mandili)

Further reading

• μανδήλη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• μανδήλη - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “μανδήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sophocles, E. A. (1900) “μαντῆλα”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 732