ἄντλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄντλον (ántlon)

Etymology

Connection with Latin sentīna (“bilgewater”) is impossible in Indo-European terms, as *sm̥- would give ἁ- (ha-) and not ἁν- (han-). Has been compared with Hittite [script needed] (ḫan-, “to draw water”), although it requires an unusual suffix -τλος (-tlos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /án.tlos/ → /ˈan.tlos/ → /ˈan.dlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /án.tlos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈan.dlos/

Noun

ἄντλος • (ántlos) m (genitive ἄντλου); second declension

1. hold of a ship
2. bilgewater
3. scuttle, sink
4. bucket, pail
5. heap of corn, threshed but not yet cleaned

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓́ντλος; τοῦ ᾰ̓́ντλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓́ντλος ho ántlos	τὼ ᾰ̓́ντλω tṑ ántlō	οἱ ᾰ̓́ντλοι hoi ántloi
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓́ντλου toû ántlou	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ντλοιν toîn ántloin	τῶν ᾰ̓́ντλων tôn ántlōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓́ντλῳ tôi ántlōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ντλοιν toîn ántloin	τοῖς ᾰ̓́ντλοις toîs ántlois
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓́ντλον tòn ántlon	τὼ ᾰ̓́ντλω tṑ ántlō	τοὺς ᾰ̓́ντλους toùs ántlous
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ντλε ántle	ᾰ̓́ντλω ántlō	ᾰ̓́ντλοι ántloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀντλέω (antléō)
• ἀντλία (antlía)
• ἀντλίον (antlíon)

 

Further reading

• “ἄντλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄντλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄντλος 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