σόλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained foreign word. The word as been compared with Hittite [script needed] (šulii̯a-, “lead”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /só.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈso.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈso.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈso.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈso.los/
Noun
σόλος • (sólos) m (genitive σόλου); second declension
- mass or lump of iron used as a discus
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σόλος; τοῦ σόλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σόλος ho sólos | τὼ σόλω tṑ sólō | οἱ σόλοι hoi sóloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σόλου toû sólou | τοῖν σόλοιν toîn sóloin | τῶν σόλων tôn sólōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σόλῳ tôi sólōi | τοῖν σόλοιν toîn sóloin | τοῖς σόλοις toîs sólois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σόλον tòn sólon | τὼ σόλω tṑ sólō | τοὺς σόλους toùs sólous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σόλε sóle | σόλω sólō | σόλοι sóloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- σόλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σόλος 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