σωλήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the -ήν suffix renders a Pre-Greek source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɔː.lɛ̌ːn/ → /soˈlin/ → /soˈlin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sɔː.lɛ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /soˈle̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /soˈlin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /soˈlin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /soˈlin/

Noun

σωλήν • (sōlḗn) m (genitive σωλῆνος); third declension

1. channel, gutter, pipe
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 154
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.60
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.526B
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 754
   1. syringe, squirt
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Galba 19
2. cylindrical box for keeping a broken limb straight
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Surgery 745, (Compare 763D, 766A)
3. grooved tile, Latin imbrex
   • Hesychius Σ
4. penis
   • Hesychius Σ
5. cavity of the spine
   • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.180

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ σωλήν; τοῦ σωλῆνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σωλήν ho sōlḗn	τὼ σωλῆνε tṑ sōlêne	οἱ σωλῆνες hoi sōlênes
Genitive	τοῦ σωλῆνος toû sōlênos	τοῖν σωλήνοιν toîn sōlḗnoin	τῶν σωλήνων tôn sōlḗnōn
Dative	τῷ σωλῆνῐ tôi sōlêni	τοῖν σωλήνοιν toîn sōlḗnoin	τοῖς σωλῆσῐ / σωλῆσῐν toîs sōlêsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σωλῆνᾰ tòn sōlêna	τὼ σωλῆνε tṑ sōlêne	τοὺς σωλῆνᾰς toùs sōlênas
Vocative	σωλήν sōlḗn	σωλῆνε sōlêne	σωλῆνες sōlênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σωληνάριον (sōlēnárion)
• σωληνεύομαι (sōlēneúomai)
• σωληνίδιον (sōlēnídion)
• σωληνίζω (sōlēnízō)
• σωληνικός (sōlēnikós)
• σωλήνιον (sōlḗnion)
• σωληνίσκος (sōlēnískos)
• σωληνισμός (sōlēnismós)
• σωληνιστής (sōlēnistḗs)
• σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs)
• σωληνοθήρας (sōlēnothḗras)
• σωληνοκέντης (sōlēnokéntēs)
• σωληνόομαι (sōlēnóomai)
• σωληνώδης (sōlēnṓdēs)
• σωληνωτός (sōlēnōtós)

 

Descendants

• English: solen
• Greek: σωλήνας (solínas)
• Latin: sōlēn
• Hebrew: סִילוֹן (silón)

Further reading

• “σωλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σωλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σωλήν 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