ὄλινοι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Furnée, related to λίνον (línon, “flax”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.li.noi̯/ → /ˈo.li.ny/ → /ˈo.li.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.li.noi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.li.ny/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.li.ny/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.li.ny/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.li.ni/

Noun

ὄλῐνοι • (ólinoi) m pl (genitive ὀλῐ́νων); first declension

1. sheaves of barley
2. (in Cyprus) flax

   Synonym: λίνον (línon)

Inflection

Second declension of οἱ ὄλῐνοι; τῶν ὀλῐ́νων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	οἱ ὄλῐνοι hoi ólinoi
Genitive	τῶν ὀλῐ́νων tôn olínōn
Dative	τοῖς ὀλῐ́νοις toîs olínois
Accusative	τοὺς ὀλῐ́νους toùs olínous
Vocative	ὄλῐνοι ólinoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

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