βηλός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βᾱλός (bālós) – Doric
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”), the same root of βαίνω (baínō, “to go, step”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛː.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /be̝ˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βiˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /viˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /viˈlos/
Noun
βηλός • (bēlós) m (genitive βηλοῦ); second declension
- threshold, the bottom-most part of a doorway
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βηλός; τοῦ βηλοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βηλός ho bēlós | τὼ βηλώ tṑ bēlṓ | οἱ βηλοί hoi bēloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βηλοῦ toû bēloû | τοῖν βηλοῖν toîn bēloîn | τῶν βηλῶν tôn bēlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βηλῷ tôi bēlôi | τοῖν βηλοῖν toîn bēloîn | τοῖς βηλοῖς toîs bēloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βηλόν tòn bēlón | τὼ βηλώ tṑ bēlṓ | τοὺς βηλούς toùs bēloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | βηλέ bēlé | βηλώ bēlṓ | βηλοί bēloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βηλόθυρον (bēlóthuron)
References
- “βηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βηλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βηλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βηλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βηλός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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