πίτυλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. The connection with πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) and πέτομαι (pétomai, “to dart, rush”) does not convince.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pí.ty.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ty.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ty.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ty.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ti.los/
Noun
πῐ́τῠλος • (pítulos) m (genitive πῐτῠ́λου); second declension
- sweep, stroke of oars
- shower, torrent
- onslaught, attack, fit
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πῐ́τῠλος; τοῦ πῐτῠ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πῐ́τῠλος ho pítulos | τὼ πῐτῠ́λω tṑ pitúlō | οἱ πῐ́τῠλοι hoi pítuloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πῐτῠ́λου toû pitúlou | τοῖν πῐτῠ́λοιν toîn pitúloin | τῶν πῐτῠ́λων tôn pitúlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πῐτῠ́λῳ tôi pitúlōi | τοῖν πῐτῠ́λοιν toîn pitúloin | τοῖς πῐτῠ́λοις toîs pitúlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πῐ́τῠλον tòn pítulon | τὼ πῐτῠ́λω tṑ pitúlō | τοὺς πῐτῠ́λους toùs pitúlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῐ́τῠλε pítule | πῐτῠ́λω pitúlō | πῐ́τῠλοι pítuloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πιτυλεύω (pituleúō)
- πιτυλίζω (pitulízō)
Further reading
- πίτυλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πίτυλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πίτυλος 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