χυλός

χυλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χέω (khéō, “pour”), but like χυμός (khumós) it is unclear how the long -ῡ- can be explained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰyː.lós/ → /çyˈlos/ → /çiˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰyː.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰyˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çyˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çyˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈlos/

Noun

χῡλός • (khūlós) m (genitive χῡλοῦ); second declension

1. (in general) juice
2. juice of plants

   Synonym: χυμός (khumós)

3. animal juice
4. chyle, juice produced by the digestion of food
5. gruel, barley water

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χῡλός; τοῦ χῡλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῡλός ho khūlós	τὼ χῡλώ tṑ khūlṓ	οἱ χῡλοί hoi khūloí
Genitive	τοῦ χῡλοῦ toû khūloû	τοῖν χῡλοῖν toîn khūloîn	τῶν χῡλῶν tôn khūlôn
Dative	τῷ χῡλῷ tôi khūlôi	τοῖν χῡλοῖν toîn khūloîn	τοῖς χῡλοῖς toîs khūloîs
Accusative	τὸν χῡλόν tòn khūlón	τὼ χῡλώ tṑ khūlṓ	τοὺς χῡλούς toùs khūloús
Vocative	χῡλέ khūlé	χῡλώ khūlṓ	χῡλοί khūloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κᾰκόχῡλος (kakókhūlos)
• χυλάριον (khulárion)
• χυλίζω (khulízō)
• χύλισμα (khúlisma)
• χυλισμός (khulismós)
• χυλοειδής (khuloeidḗs)
• χυλοποιέω (khulopoiéō)
• χυλόω (khulóō)
• χυλώδης (khulṓdēs)
• χύλωμα (khúlōma)
• χύλωσις (khúlōsis)
• χυλωτός (khulōtós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: χυλός (chylós)
• → Latin: chȳlus
  • → English: chyle

References

• “χυλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χυλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χυλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • juice idem, page 465.
  • sap idem, page 734.
• 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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós).

Noun

χυλός • (chylós) m (plural χυλοί)

1. gruel

Declension

declension of χυλός

case     \\     number	singular	plural
nominative	χυλός •	χυλοί •
genitive	χυλού •	χυλών •
accusative	χυλό •	χυλούς •
vocative	χυλέ •	χυλοί •

Derived terms

• χυλοπίτα f (chylopíta, “Greek pasta, noodle”)
• χυλώδης (chylódis, “gruel like”)
• χύλωμα n (chýloma, “gruel, porridge”)
• χυλώνω (chylóno, “to become gruel like”)

Further reading

• χυλός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el