κηρύλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κειρύλος (keirúlos)

Etymology

No etymology. Beekes states that the suffix "-υλο-" is typical of Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.rý.los/ → /ciˈry.los/ → /ciˈri.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.rý.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈry.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈry.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈry.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.los/

Noun

κηρύλος • (kērúlos) m (genitive κηρύλου); second declension

1. A fabulous sea bird, identified with the ἀλκυών (alkuṓn)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κηρῠ́λος; τοῦ κηρῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κηρῠ́λος ho kērúlos	τὼ κηρῠ́λω tṑ kērúlō	οἱ κηρῠ́λοι hoi kērúloi
Genitive	τοῦ κηρῠ́λου toû kērúlou	τοῖν κηρῠ́λοιν toîn kērúloin	τῶν κηρῠ́λων tôn kērúlōn
Dative	τῷ κηρῠ́λῳ tôi kērúlōi	τοῖν κηρῠ́λοιν toîn kērúloin	τοῖς κηρῠ́λοις toîs kērúlois
Accusative	τὸν κηρῠ́λον tòn kērúlon	τὼ κηρῠ́λω tṑ kērúlō	τοὺς κηρῠ́λους toùs kērúlous
Vocative	κηρῠ́λε kērúle	κηρῠ́λω kērúlō	κηρῠ́λοι kērúloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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