κορδύλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κουρῠ́λος (kourúlos)

Etymology

Perhaps related to κορδῡ́λη (kordū́lē, “swelling”), after the crest on the back. According to Beekes, probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kor.dý.los/ → /korˈðy.los/ → /korˈði.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kor.dý.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /korˈdy.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /korˈðy.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /korˈðy.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /korˈði.los/

Noun

κορδῠ́λος • (kordúlos) m (genitive κορδῠ́λου); second declension

1. newt, eft (Lissotriton vulgaris)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κορδῠ́λος; τοῦ κορδῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κορδῠ́λος ho kordúlos	τὼ κορδῠ́λω tṑ kordúlō	οἱ κορδῠ́λοι hoi kordúloi
Genitive	τοῦ κορδῠ́λου toû kordúlou	τοῖν κορδῠ́λοιν toîn kordúloin	τῶν κορδῠ́λων tôn kordúlōn
Dative	τῷ κορδῠ́λῳ tôi kordúlōi	τοῖν κορδῠ́λοιν toîn kordúloin	τοῖς κορδῠ́λοις toîs kordúlois
Accusative	τὸν κορδῠ́λον tòn kordúlon	τὼ κορδῠ́λω tṑ kordúlō	τοὺς κορδῠ́λους toùs kordúlous
Vocative	κορδῠ́λε kordúle	κορδῠ́λω kordúlō	κορδῠ́λοι kordúloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Cordylus

Further reading

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