τῖλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. The comparisons with Armenian թրիք (tʿrikʿ, “dung, manure”), if from *tiHr-, Proto-Germanic *þainaz (“moist”) and Russian тина (tina, “scum, slime”) remain speculative, since there is no evidence of a root *tiH- or *tH-i- in this meaning. The same holds for the connection with τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, marsh”). The verb τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”) is not related, either.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tîː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.los/
Noun
τῖλος • (tîlos) m (genitive τῑ́λου); second declension
- thin stool, as in diarrhea
- Synonym: σπᾰτῑ́λη (spatī́lē)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ τῖλος; τοῦ τῑ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ τῖλος ho tîlos | τὼ τῑ́λω tṑ tī́lō | οἱ τῖλοι hoi tîloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τῑ́λου toû tī́lou | τοῖν τῑ́λοιν toîn tī́loin | τῶν τῑ́λων tôn tī́lōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τῑ́λῳ tôi tī́lōi | τῑ́λοιν tī́loin | τοῖς τῑ́λοις toîs tī́lois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν τῖλον tòn tîlon | τῑ́λω tī́lō | τοὺς τῑ́λους toùs tī́lous | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῖλε tîle | τῑ́λω tī́lō | τῖλοι tîloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἱππότῑλος (hippótīlos)
- τῑλᾰ́ω (tīláō)
- τῑ́λημᾰ (tī́lēma)
Further reading
- τῖλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τῖλος 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