μαθαλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ἀγκαλίς (ankalís), τρυφαλίς (truphalís) and φυσαλίς (phusalís), but without etymology. Connection with μάθυαι (máthuai, “jaws”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”) seems impossible. Furnée compares Latin matula (“vessel for liquids; chamber pot”), Georgian მათარა (matara, “waterskin, flask”) and βάτος (bátos, “Hebrew unit of measure”). Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.tʰa.lís/ → /ma.θaˈlis/ → /ma.θaˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.tʰa.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma.tʰaˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma.θaˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma.θaˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma.θaˈlis/

Noun

μᾰθᾰλῐ́ς • (mathalís) f (genitive μᾰθᾰλῐ́δος); third declension

1. kind of cup, used as a unit of measure

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ μᾰθᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς μᾰθᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰθᾰλῐ́ς hē mathalís	τὼ μᾰθᾰλῐ́δε tṑ mathalíde	αἱ μᾰθᾰλῐ́δες hai mathalídes
Genitive	τῆς μᾰθᾰλῐ́δος tês mathalídos	τοῖν μᾰθᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn mathalídoin	τῶν μᾰθᾰλῐ́δων tôn mathalídōn
Dative	τῇ μᾰθᾰλῐ́δῐ têi mathalídi	τοῖν μᾰθᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn mathalídoin	ταῖς μᾰθᾰλῐ́σῐ / μᾰθᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs mathalísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μᾰθᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn mathalída	τὼ μᾰθᾰλῐ́δε tṑ mathalíde	τᾱ̀ς μᾰθᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s mathalídas
Vocative	μᾰθᾰλῐ́ς mathalís	μᾰθᾰλῐ́δε mathalíde	μᾰθᾰλῐ́δες mathalídes
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.

Further reading

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