πυλών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πύλη (púlē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.lɔ̌ːn/ → /pyˈlon/ → /piˈlon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.lɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈlon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈlon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈlon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈlon/

Noun

πῠλών • (pulṓn) m (genitive πῠλῶνος); third declension

1. a gateway

Declension

Third declension of ὁ πῠλών; τοῦ πῠλῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠλών ho pulṓn	τὼ πῠλῶνε tṑ pulône	οἱ πῠλῶνες hoi pulônes
Genitive	τοῦ πῠλῶνος toû pulônos	τοῖν πῠλώνοιν toîn pulṓnoin	τῶν πῠλώνων tôn pulṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠλῶνῐ tôi pulôni	τοῖν πῠλώνοιν toîn pulṓnoin	τοῖς πῠλῶσῐ / πῠλῶσῐν toîs pulôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῠλῶνᾰ tòn pulôna	τὼ πῠλῶνε tṑ pulône	τοὺς πῠλῶνᾰς toùs pulônas
Vocative	πῠλών pulṓn	πῠλῶνε pulône	πῠλῶνες pulônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: пилон (pilon) (learned)
• → English: pylon (learned)
• → French: pylône (learned)
  • → Romanian: pilon
• → Russian: пилон (pilon) (learned)
• ⇒ Greek: πυλώνας (pylónas)

Further reading

• “πυλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυλών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Noun

πυλών • (pylón) f

1. Genitive plural form of πύλη (pýli).