δείλη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”), thus related to δῆλος (dêlos, “clear, visible”) and cognate to Latin dies
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /děː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈdi.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈði.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈði.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈði.li/
Noun
δείλη • (deílē) f (genitive δείλης); first declension
- afternoon
Inflection
First declension of ἡ δείλη; τῆς δείλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ δείλη hē deílē | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς δείλης tês deílēs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ δείλῃ têi deílēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν δείλην tḕn deílēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | δείλη deílē | ||||||||||||
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References
- “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δείλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δείλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- afternoon idem, page 17.
- evening idem, page 285.