ψόλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée compares ἄσβολος (ásbolos, “soot”), ψόθος (psóthos, “foulness, uncleanness”), ψοῖθος (psoîthos, “ashes”) and σποδός (spodós, “ashes”), suggesting a common Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /psó.los/ → /ˈpso.los/ → /ˈpso.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /psó.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpso.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpso.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpso.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpso.los/

Noun

ψόλος • (psólos) m (genitive ψόλου); second declension

1. soot, smoke

   Synonyms: αἴθαλος (aíthalos), ἄσβολος (ásbolos)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ψόλος; τοῦ ψόλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ψόλος ho psólos	τὼ ψόλω tṑ psólō	οἱ ψόλοι hoi psóloi
Genitive	τοῦ ψόλου toû psólou	τοῖν ψόλοιν toîn psóloin	τῶν ψόλων tôn psólōn
Dative	τῷ ψόλῳ tôi psólōi	τοῖν ψόλοιν toîn psóloin	τοῖς ψόλοις toîs psólois
Accusative	τὸν ψόλον tòn psólon	τὼ ψόλω tṑ psólō	τοὺς ψόλους toùs psólous
Vocative	ψόλε psóle	ψόλω psólō	ψόλοι psóloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ψολόεις (psolóeis)
• ψολοκομπία (psolokompía)

 

Further reading

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