αἰσάλων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- αἰσᾰ́ρων (aisárōn)
Etymology
Furnée suggests a Pre-Greek origin in view of the variation λ/ρ.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ai̯.sá.lɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛˈsa.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɛˈsa.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈsa.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈsa.lon/
Noun
αἰσᾰ́λων • (aisálōn) m (genitive αἰσᾰ́λωνος); third declension
- kind of hawk mentioned by Aristotle, perhaps the Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata) or the merlin (Falco columbarius)
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ αἰσᾰ́λων; τοῦ αἰσᾰ́λωνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ αἰσᾰ́λων ho aisálōn | τὼ αἰσᾰ́λωνε tṑ aisálōne | οἱ αἰσᾰ́λωνες hoi aisálōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ αἰσᾰ́λωνος toû aisálōnos | τοῖν αἰσᾰλώνοιν toîn aisalṓnoin | τῶν αἰσᾰλώνων tôn aisalṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ αἰσᾰ́λωνῐ tôi aisálōni | τοῖν αἰσᾰλώνοιν toîn aisalṓnoin | τοῖς αἰσᾰ́λωσῐ / αἰσᾰ́λωσῐν toîs aisálōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν αἰσᾰ́λωνᾰ tòn aisálōna | τὼ αἰσᾰ́λωνε tṑ aisálōne | τοὺς αἰσᾰ́λωνᾰς toùs aisálōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | αἰσᾰ́λων aisálōn | αἰσᾰ́λωνε aisálōne | αἰσᾰ́λωνες aisálōnes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “αἰσάλων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- αἰσάλων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αἰσάλων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “αἰσάλων”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 43