φωλεός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
The formation is similar to γωλεός (gōleós), εἰλεός (eileós) and στελεός (steleós). Frisk connects the word with Old Norse ból (“layer, nest of animals”) but this theory is now rejected. Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin in view of the ending "-εος".
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɔː.le.ós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰo.leˈos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸo.leˈos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fo.leˈos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fo.leˈos/
Noun edit
φωλεός • (phōleós) m (genitive φωλεοῦ); second declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φωλεός ho phōleós |
τὼ φωλεώ tṑ phōleṓ |
οἱ φωλεοί hoi phōleoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φωλεοῦ toû phōleoû |
τοῖν φωλεοῖν toîn phōleoîn |
τῶν φωλεῶν tôn phōleôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φωλεῷ tôi phōleôi |
τοῖν φωλεοῖν toîn phōleoîn |
τοῖς φωλεοῖς toîs phōleoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φωλεόν tòn phōleón |
τὼ φωλεώ tṑ phōleṓ |
τοὺς φωλεούς toùs phōleoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | φωλεέ phōleé |
φωλεώ phōleṓ |
φωλεοί phōleoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “φωλεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φωλεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φωλεός 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