κανθύλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κονθηλαί (konthēlaí)

Etymology

The comparison with Proto-Germanic *gundaz (“sore, boil; pus”) would require that κονθηλαί (konthēlaí) is original, which is highly unlikely. Strömberg derives the word from κάνθων (kánthōn) and κανθήλιος (kanthḗlios), both meaning pack ass. The variation α/ο is clearly Pre-Greek, as is the suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kan.tʰý.lɛː/ → /kanˈθy.li/ → /kanˈθi.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kan.tʰý.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kanˈtʰy.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kanˈθy.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kanˈθy.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.li/

Noun

κανθύλη • (kanthúlē) f (genitive κανθύλης); first declension

1. (oncology) swelling, tumour
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 220

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κανθύλη; τῆς κανθύλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κανθύλη hē kanthúlē	τὼ κανθύλᾱ tṑ kanthúlā	αἱ κανθύλαι hai kanthúlai
Genitive	τῆς κανθύλης tês kanthúlēs	τοῖν κανθύλαιν toîn kanthúlain	τῶν κανθυλῶν tôn kanthulôn
Dative	τῇ κανθύλῃ têi kanthúlēi	τοῖν κανθύλαιν toîn kanthúlain	ταῖς κανθύλαις taîs kanthúlais
Accusative	τὴν κανθύλην tḕn kanthúlēn	τὼ κανθύλᾱ tṑ kanthúlā	τᾱ̀ς κανθύλᾱς tā̀s kanthúlās
Vocative	κανθύλη kanthúlē	κανθύλᾱ kanthúlā	κανθύλαι kanthúlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κανθύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κανθύλη 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