ἄσιλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the ending in -ιλλ- points to a Pre-Greek origin. Compare ἅμιλλα (hámilla) and ἄργιλλα (árgilla).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.sil.la/ → /ˈa.sil.la/ → /ˈa.si.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.sil.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sil.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sil.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sil.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.la/

Noun

ἄσῐλλᾰ • (ásilla) f (genitive ἀσῐ́λλης); first declension

1. yoke for carrying baskets or pails

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἄσῐλλᾰ; τῆς ἀσῐ́λλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἄσῐλλᾰ hē ásilla	τὼ ἀσῐ́λλᾱ tṑ asíllā	αἱ ἄσῐλλαι hai ásillai
Genitive	τῆς ἀσῐ́λλης tês asíllēs	τοῖν ἀσῐ́λλαιν toîn asíllain	τῶν ἀσῐλλῶν tôn asillôn
Dative	τῇ ἀσῐ́λλῃ têi asíllēi	τοῖν ἀσῐ́λλαιν toîn asíllain	ταῖς ἀσῐ́λλαις taîs asíllais
Accusative	τὴν ἄσῐλλᾰν tḕn ásillan	τὼ ἀσῐ́λλᾱ tṑ asíllā	τᾱ̀ς ἀσῐ́λλᾱς tā̀s asíllās
Vocative	ἄσῐλλᾰ ásilla	ἀσῐ́λλᾱ asíllā	ἄσῐλλαι ásillai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀσιλλοφορέω (asillophoréō)
• ἀσιλλοφόρος (asillophóros)

 

Further reading

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