ἀρύβαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably of Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -αλλος.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.rý.bal.los/ → /aˈry.βal.los/ → /aˈri.va.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.rý.bal.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈry.bal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈry.βal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈry.val.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈri.va.los/

Noun

ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλος • (arúballos) m (genitive ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλου); second declension

1. a bag or purse, made so as to draw close
   • Stesich. 11
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 50
2. a globular oil-flask
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1094
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.783f

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλος; τοῦ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλος ho arúballos	τὼ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλω tṑ arubállō	οἱ ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλοι hoi arúballoi
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλου toû arubállou	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλοιν toîn arubálloin	τῶν ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλων tôn arubállōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλῳ tôi arubállōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλοιν toîn arubálloin	τοῖς ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλοις toîs arubállois
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλον tòn arúballon	τὼ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλω tṑ arubállō	τοὺς ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλους toùs arubállous
Vocative	ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλε arúballe	ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλω arubállō	ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλοι arúballoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀρῠβαλλῐ́ς f (aruballís)

Descendants

(All borrowed:)

• English: aryballos
• French: aryballe
• Italian: ariballo
• Russian: ариба́лл (aribáll)

References

• “ἀρύβαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρύβαλλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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