κύνδαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation recalls that of the synonymous πάσσαλος (pássalos). According to Beekes, the word has a typical Pre-Greek appearance.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kýn.da.los/ → /ˈcyn.da.los/ → /ˈcin.da.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kýn.da.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkyn.da.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcyn.da.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcyn.da.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcin.da.los/

Noun

κύνδᾰλος • (kúndalos) m (genitive κυνδάλου); second declension

1. wooden peg

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κύνδᾰλος; τοῦ κυνδᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κύνδᾰλος ho kúndalos	τὼ κυνδᾰ́λω tṑ kundálō	οἱ κύνδᾰλοι hoi kúndaloi
Genitive	τοῦ κυνδᾰ́λου toû kundálou	τοῖν κυνδᾰ́λοιν toîn kundáloin	τῶν κυνδᾰ́λων tôn kundálōn
Dative	τῷ κυνδᾰ́λῳ tôi kundálōi	τοῖν κυνδᾰ́λοιν toîn kundáloin	τοῖς κυνδᾰ́λοις toîs kundálois
Accusative	τὸν κύνδᾰλον tòn kúndalon	τὼ κυνδᾰ́λω tṑ kundálō	τοὺς κυνδᾰ́λους toùs kundálous
Vocative	κύνδᾰλε kúndale	κυνδᾰ́λω kundálō	κύνδᾰλοι kúndaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυνδαλισμός (kundalismós)

Further reading

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