ὀβολός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From ὀβελός (obelós, “spit, rod”). Plutarch tells us in Lysander 17 that, in early times, nails (ὀβελοί (obeloí)) were used as money, six of which made a handful (δραχμή (drakhmḗ)), and that the name was changed to ὀβολός (obolós).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.bo.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.boˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.βoˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.voˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.voˈlos/
Noun edit
ὀβολός • (obolós) m (genitive ὀβολοῦ); second declension
- obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and a coin, equaling one sixth of a drachma
- a Corcyrean coin
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀβολός ho obolós |
τὼ ὀβολώ tṑ obolṓ |
οἱ ὀβολοί hoi oboloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀβολοῦ toû oboloû |
τοῖν ὀβολοῖν toîn oboloîn |
τῶν ὀβολῶν tôn obolôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀβολῷ tôi obolôi |
τοῖν ὀβολοῖν toîn oboloîn |
τοῖς ὀβολοῖς toîs oboloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀβολόν tòn obolón |
τὼ ὀβολώ tṑ obolṓ |
τοὺς ὀβολούς toùs oboloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀβολέ obolé |
ὀβολώ obolṓ |
ὀβολοί oboloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- ὀβολοστᾰ́της (obolostátēs)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “ὀβολός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀβολός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀβολός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- penny idem, page 603.
- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-xiv