ὀρταλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from *ὀρτος (*ortos) (meaning unknown) +‎ -αλίς (-alís).

Compare συκαλίς (sukalís) and δορκαλίς (dorkalís), which contain the same suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /or.ta.lís/ → /or.taˈlis/ → /or.taˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /or.ta.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /or.taˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /or.taˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /or.taˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /or.taˈlis/

Noun

ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς • (ortalís) f (genitive ὀρτᾰλῐ́δος); third declension

1. hen, fowl

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς ὀρτᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς hē ortalís	τὼ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δε tṑ ortalíde	αἱ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δες hai ortalídes
Genitive	τῆς ὀρτᾰλῐ́δος tês ortalídos	τοῖν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn ortalídoin	τῶν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δων tôn ortalídōn
Dative	τῇ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δῐ têi ortalídi	τοῖν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn ortalídoin	ταῖς ὀρτᾰλῐ́σῐ / ὀρτᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs ortalísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn ortalída	τὼ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δε tṑ ortalíde	τᾱ̀ς ὀρτᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s ortalídas
Vocative	ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς ortalís	ὀρτᾰλῐ́δε ortalíde	ὀρτᾰλῐ́δες ortalídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ὀρταλίζω (ortalízō)
• ὀρταλιχεύς (ortalikheús)
• ὀρτάλιχος (ortálikhos)

 

Descendants

• → Translingual: Ortalis

References

• “ὀρταλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀρταλίς 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