δείλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”), thus related to δῆλος (dêlos, “clear, visible”) and cognate to Latin dies

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /děː.lɛː/ → /ˈði.li/ → /ˈði.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /děː.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈði.li/

Noun

δείλη • (deílē) f (genitive δείλης); first declension

1. afternoon

Inflection

First declension of ἡ δείλη; τῆς δείλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ δείλη hē deílē
Genitive	τῆς δείλης tês deílēs
Dative	τῇ δείλῃ têi deílēi
Accusative	τὴν δείλην tḕn deílēn
Vocative	δείλη deílē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δείλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δείλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • afternoon idem, page 17.
  • evening idem, page 285.
• “δείλη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011