αὐλητρίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine form of αὐλητής (aulētḗs, “flute-player”), from αὐλέω (auléō, “to play the flute”) + -τρις (-tris, feminine agent-noun suffix) from αὐλός (aulós, “flute”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯.lɛː.trís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aw.le̝ˈtris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βliˈtris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.vliˈtris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.vliˈtris/
Noun
αὐλητρῐ́ς • (aulētrís) f (genitive αὐλητρῐ́δος); third declension
- (music) A flute-girl in ancient Greece, whose services may also have been sexual.
Declension
Third declension of ἡ αὐλητρῐ́ς; τῆς αὐλητρῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ αὐλητρῐ́ς hē aulētrís | τὼ αὐλητρῐ́δε tṑ aulētríde | αἱ αὐλητρῐ́δες hai aulētrídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς αὐλητρῐ́δος tês aulētrídos | τοῖν αὐλητρῐ́δοιν toîn aulētrídoin | τῶν αὐλητρῐ́δων tôn aulētrídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ αὐλητρῐ́δῐ têi aulētrídi | τοῖν αὐλητρῐ́δοιν toîn aulētrídoin | ταῖς αὐλητρῐ́σῐ / αὐλητρῐ́σῐν taîs aulētrísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν αὐλητρῐ́δᾰ tḕn aulētrída | τὼ αὐλητρῐ́δε tṑ aulētríde | τᾱ̀ς αὐλητρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s aulētrídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | αὐλητρῐ́ς aulētrís | αὐλητρῐ́δε aulētríde | αὐλητρῐ́δες aulētrídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- auletris
References
- “αὐλητρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐλητρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αὐλητρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐλητρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- flute-girl idem, page 330.
- flute-player idem, page 330.