κελέοντες

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Frisk, originally a present participle of a verb *κελέω (*keléō), which would be a denominative of *κέλος (*kélos, “rising up”). Formally, the latter could be compared with Proto-Slavic *čelo (“forehead”), and further connected with κολώνη (kolṓnē, “hill”), both from Proto-Indo-European *kel (“to raise, lift”). It does not belong to κελοί (keloí, “woods”). Furnée assumes a pre-form *κελέϝοντες (*keléwontes) as a variant of *κελεμος (*kelemos), which stands behind -κελεμνο- seen in ἀμφικέλεμνον (amphikélemnon, “chair carried by two men”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ke.lé.on.tes/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /keˈle.on.tes/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ceˈle.on.tes/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ceˈle.on.tes/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ceˈle.on.des/

Noun

κελέοντες • (keléontes) m pl (genitive κελεόντων); third declension

vertical beams in the upright loom, between which the web hung down
Synonym: ἱστόποδες (histópodes)

Declension

Third declension of οἱ κελέοντες; τῶν κελεόντων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	οἱ κελέοντες hoi keléontes
Genitive	τῶν κελεόντων tôn keleóntōn
Dative	τοῖς κελέουσῐ / κελέουσῐν toîs keléousi(n)
Accusative	τοὺς κελέοντᾰς toùs keléontas
Vocative	κελέοντες keléontes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

“κελέοντες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κελέοντες in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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