κανθήλια
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- κανθήλιον (kanthḗlion)
Etymology edit
The relation with κανθίαι (kanthíai, “creels”), κάνθων (kánthōn, “pack-ass”) and κανθίς (kanthís, “dung of an ass”) is unclear, due to their specialized technical meanings. Formally, the word can be compared with κειμήλια (keimḗlia) and γαμήλιος (gamḗlios). According to Deroy, it is a Mediterranean substrate word. Furnée connects it with ἀνθήλιον (anthḗlion, “packsaddle”), with alternation k/-zero and assumes Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kan.tʰɛ̌ː.li.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kanˈtʰe̝.li.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kanˈθi.li.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kanˈθi.li.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kanˈθi.li.a/
Noun edit
κανθήλια • (kanthḗlia) n pl (genitive κανθηλίων); second declension
- panniers at the sides of a packsaddle
- large baskets for carrying grapes
- wooden lattice shelter at a ship's stern
Declension edit
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ κανθήλιᾰ tà kanthḗlia | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν κανθηλίων tôn kanthēlíōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς κανθηλίοις toîs kanthēlíois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ κανθήλιᾰ tà kanthḗlia | ||||||||||||
Vocative | κανθήλιᾰ kanthḗlia | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- κανθηλικός (kanthēlikós)
- κανθήλιος (kanthḗlios)
Further reading edit
- “κανθήλια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κανθήλια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κανθήλια”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635