σωλήν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the -ήν suffix renders a Pre-Greek source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sɔː.lɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /soˈle̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /soˈlin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /soˈlin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /soˈlin/
Noun
σωλήν • (sōlḗn) m (genitive σωλῆνος); third declension
- channel, gutter, pipe
- Archilochus, Collected Works 154
- Herodotus, Histories 3.60
- Plutarch, Moralia 2.526B
- Strabo, Geography 754
- syringe, squirt
- Plutarch, Galba 19
- cylindrical box for keeping a broken limb straight
- Hippocrates, Surgery 745, (Compare 763D, 766A)
- grooved tile, Latin imbrex
- Hesychius Σ
- penis
- Hesychius Σ
- cavity of the spine
- Pollux, Onomasticon 2.180
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ σωλήν; τοῦ σωλῆνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σωλήν ho sōlḗn | τὼ σωλῆνε tṑ sōlêne | οἱ σωλῆνες hoi sōlênes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σωλῆνος toû sōlênos | τοῖν σωλήνοιν toîn sōlḗnoin | τῶν σωλήνων tôn sōlḗnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σωλῆνῐ tôi sōlêni | τοῖν σωλήνοιν toîn sōlḗnoin | τοῖς σωλῆσῐ / σωλῆσῐν toîs sōlêsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σωλῆνᾰ tòn sōlêna | τὼ σωλῆνε tṑ sōlêne | τοὺς σωλῆνᾰς toùs sōlênas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σωλήν sōlḗn | σωλῆνε sōlêne | σωλῆνες sōlênes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σωληνάριον (sōlēnárion)
- σωληνεύομαι (sōlēneúomai)
- σωληνίδιον (sōlēnídion)
- σωληνίζω (sōlēnízō)
- σωληνικός (sōlēnikós)
- σωλήνιον (sōlḗnion)
- σωληνίσκος (sōlēnískos)
- σωληνισμός (sōlēnismós)
- σωληνιστής (sōlēnistḗs)
- σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs)
- σωληνοθήρας (sōlēnothḗras)
- σωληνοκέντης (sōlēnokéntēs)
- σωληνόομαι (sōlēnóomai)
- σωληνώδης (sōlēnṓdēs)
- σωληνωτός (sōlēnōtós)
Descendants
- English: solen
- Greek: σωλήνας (solínas)
- Latin: sōlēn
Further reading
- “σωλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σωλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σωλήν 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