πυρρούλας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from πῠρρός (purrhós, “red, fiery”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyr̥.r̥ǔː.laːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyrˈru.las/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyrˈru.las/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyrˈru.las/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈru.las/
Noun
πῠρρούλᾱς • (purrhoúlās) m (genitive πῠρρούλου); first declension
- bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Inflection
First declension of ὁ πῠρρούλᾱς; τοῦ πῠρρούλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πῠρρούλᾱς ho purrhoúlās | τὼ πῠρρούλᾱ tṑ purrhoúlā | οἱ πῠρροῦλαι hoi purrhoûlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πῠρρούλου toû purrhoúlou | τοῖν πῠρρούλαιν toîn purrhoúlain | τῶν πῠρρουλῶν tôn purrhoulôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πῠρρούλᾳ tôi purrhoúlāi | τοῖν πῠρρούλαιν toîn purrhoúlain | τοῖς πῠρρούλαις toîs purrhoúlais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πῠρρούλᾱν tòn purrhoúlān | τὼ πῠρρούλᾱ tṑ purrhoúlā | τοὺς πῠρρούλᾱς toùs purrhoúlās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῠρρούλᾱ purrhoúlā | πῠρρούλᾱ purrhoúlā | πῠρροῦλαι purrhoûlai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Pyrrhula
Further reading
- “πυρρούλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πυρρούλας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette