κατουλάς

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 23 October 2013

Etymology

From κατειλέω (kateiléō, “to wrap up, enclose”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ás).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tuː.lás/ → /ka.tuˈlas/ → /ka.tuˈlas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tuː.lás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.tuˈlas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.tuˈlas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.tuˈlas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.tuˈlas/

Noun

κᾰτουλᾰ́ς • (katoulás) f (genitive κᾰτουλᾰ́δος); third declension

1. shrouding
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 383
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1695

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰτουλᾰ́ς; τῆς κᾰτουλᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτουλᾰ́ς hē katoulás	τὼ κᾰτουλᾰ́δε tṑ katouláde	αἱ κᾰτουλᾰ́δες hai katouládes
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτουλᾰ́δος tês katouládos	τοῖν κᾰτουλᾰ́δοιν toîn katouládoin	τῶν κᾰτουλᾰ́δων tôn katouládōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτουλᾰ́δῐ têi katouládi	τοῖν κᾰτουλᾰ́δοιν toîn katouládoin	ταῖς κᾰτουλᾰ́σῐ / κᾰτουλᾰ́σῐν taîs katoulási(n)
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτουλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn katouláda	τὼ κᾰτουλᾰ́δε tṑ katouláde	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτουλᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s katouládas
Vocative	κᾰτουλᾰ́ς katoulás	κᾰτουλᾰ́δε katouláde	κᾰτουλᾰ́δες katouládes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

References

• “κατουλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κατουλάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette