αὐλητής
See also: αυλητής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αὐλέω (auléō, “to play the flute”) + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯.lɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aw.le̝ˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βliˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.vliˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.vliˈtis/
Noun
αὐλητής • (aulētḗs) m (genitive αὐλητοῦ); first declension
- (music) a flute-player, flautist.
- Theognis of Megara, Elegies 941
- Herodotus, Histories 1.141
- Herodotus, Histories 6.60
- Aristophanes, The Wasps 581
- Andocides, Collected Works 2.43
Inflection
First declension of ὁ αὐλητής; τοῦ αὐλητοῦ (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ αὐλητής ho aulētḗs | τὼ αὐλητᾱ́ tṑ aulētā́ | οἱ αὐληταί hoi aulētaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ αὐλητοῦ toû aulētoû | τοῖν αὐληταῖν toîn aulētaîn | τῶν αὐλητῶν tôn aulētôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ αὐλητῇ tôi aulētêi | τοῖν αὐληταῖν toîn aulētaîn | τοῖς αὐληταῖς toîs aulētaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν αὐλητήν tòn aulētḗn | τὼ αὐλητᾱ́ tṑ aulētā́ | τοὺς αὐλητᾱ́ς toùs aulētā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αὐλητᾰ́ aulētá | αὐλητᾱ́ aulētā́ | αὐληταί aulētaí | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- αὐλητρίς (aulētrís) (feminine)
Descendants
- English: aulete
- Greek: αυλητής (avlitís)
Further reading
- “αὐλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αὐλητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐλητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G834 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- flute-player idem, page 330.
- piper idem, page 614.