τῆλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
There is no certain explanation. Traditionally compared to Latin talea (“stave, cutting”) and Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palm tree”) but such guesses have been abandoned recently. Possibly connected to Proto-Albanian *talā (“cornstalk”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛ̂ː.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte̝.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.lis/
Noun
τῆλις • (têlis) f (genitive τήλεως); third declension
- fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum)
- Synonyms: αἰγόκερας (aigókeras), βούκερας (boúkeras)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ τῆλῐς; τῆς τήλεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τῆλῐς hē têlis | τὼ τήλει tṑ tḗlei | αἱ τήλεις hai tḗleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τήλεως tês tḗleōs | τοῖν τηλέοιν toîn tēléoin | τῶν τήλεων tôn tḗleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τήλει têi tḗlei | τοῖν τηλέοιν toîn tēléoin | ταῖς τήλεσῐ / τήλεσῐν taîs tḗlesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τῆλῐν tḕn têlin | τὼ τήλει tṑ tḗlei | τᾱ̀ς τήλεις tā̀s tḗleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῆλῐ têli | τήλει tḗlei | τήλεις tḗleis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπιτηλίς (epitēlís)
- τηλίνη (tēlínē)
- τήλινος (tḗlinos)
- τηλίτης (tēlítēs)
Descendants
- Latin: tēlis
References
- “τῆλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τῆλις 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
- “τῆλις – Trigonella foenum-graecum”, in Dioscórides Interactivo (in Spanish), 2023