κύνδαλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation recalls that of the synonymous πάσσαλος (pássalos). According to Beekes, the word has a typical Pre-Greek appearance.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kýn.da.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkyn.da.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcyn.da.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcyn.da.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈcin.da.los/
Noun
κύνδᾰλος • (kúndalos) m (genitive κυνδάλου); second declension
- wooden peg
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κύνδᾰλος; τοῦ κυνδᾰ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κύνδᾰλος ho kúndalos | τὼ κυνδᾰ́λω tṑ kundálō | οἱ κύνδᾰλοι hoi kúndaloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κυνδᾰ́λου toû kundálou | τοῖν κυνδᾰ́λοιν toîn kundáloin | τῶν κυνδᾰ́λων tôn kundálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κυνδᾰ́λῳ tôi kundálōi | τοῖν κυνδᾰ́λοιν toîn kundáloin | τοῖς κυνδᾰ́λοις toîs kundálois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κύνδᾰλον tòn kúndalon | τὼ κυνδᾰ́λω tṑ kundálō | τοὺς κυνδᾰ́λους toùs kundálous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κύνδᾰλε kúndale | κυνδᾰ́λω kundálō | κύνδᾰλοι kúndaloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κυνδαλισμός (kundalismós)
Further reading
- “κύνδαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύνδαλος 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