πύελος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πύαλος (púalos)
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek but it has also been compared with πλύνω (plúnō, “to wash, clean”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pý.e.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.e.los/
Noun
πῠ́ελος • (púelos) f (genitive πῠέλου); second declension
- trough for feeding animals
- bathtub
- vat, kitchen boiler
- coffin
- (anatomy) infundibulum
Declension
Second declension of ἡ πῠ́ελος; τῆς πῠέλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῠ́ελος hē púelos | τὼ πῠέλω tṑ puélō | αἱ πῠ́ελοι hai púeloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῠέλου tês puélou | τοῖν πῠέλοιν toîn puéloin | τῶν πῠέλων tôn puélōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῠέλῳ têi puélōi | τοῖν πῠέλοιν toîn puéloin | ταῖς πῠέλοις taîs puélois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῠ́ελον tḕn púelon | τὼ πῠέλω tṑ puélō | τᾱ̀ς πῠέλους tā̀s puélous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῠ́ελε púele | πῠέλω puélō | πῠ́ελοι púeloi | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- λουτήρ (loutḗr)
- ἀσάμινθος (asáminthos)
Derived terms
- πυέλιον (puélion)
- πυελίς (puelís)
- πυελώδης (puelṓdēs)
Further reading
- “πύελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πύελος 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