τροχίλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τρέχω (trékhō, “run, move quickly”) + -ῐ́λος (-ílos, “denoting a kind of bird”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tro.kʰí.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /troˈkʰi.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /troˈçi.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /troˈçi.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /troˈçi.los/
Noun
τροχῐ́λος • (trokhílos) m (genitive τροχῐ́λου); second declension
- Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius)
- Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
- Synonyms: βᾰσῐλῐ́σκος (basilískos), κόρθῐλος (kórthilos), ῥόβῐλλος (rhóbillos), τρωγλοδῠ́της (trōglodútēs)
- (architecture) hollow between the mouldings on the base of a column; scotia
- sheave in block and tackle
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τροχῐ́λος; τοῦ τροχῐ́λου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τροχῐ́λος ho trokhílos | τὼ τροχῐ́λω tṑ trokhílō | οἱ τροχῐ́λοι hoi trokhíloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τροχῐ́λου toû trokhílou | τοῖν τροχῐ́λοιν toîn trokhíloin | τῶν τροχῐ́λων tôn trokhílōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τροχῐ́λῳ tôi trokhílōi | τοῖν τροχῐ́λοιν toîn trokhíloin | τοῖς τροχῐ́λοις toîs trokhílois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τροχῐ́λον tòn trokhílon | τὼ τροχῐ́λω tṑ trokhílō | τοὺς τροχῐ́λους toùs trokhílous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τροχῐ́λε trokhíle | τροχῐ́λω trokhílō | τροχῐ́λοι trokhíloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τροχῐλείᾱ (trokhileíā)
- τροχῐλώδης (trokhilṓdēs, adjective)
Related terms
- τροχῐλῐ́δῐον (trokhilídion)
Descendants
- → Latin: trochilus
- → English: trochilus
- → Spanish: troquilo
- → Translingual: Trochilus
Further reading
- “τροχίλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τροχίλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τροχίλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette