ἄκολος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word has been confronted to Phrygian βεκος ακκαλος (bekos akkalos). A connection with Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat, consume”) does not explain the formation. A suggestion by Furnée is to connect it to κόλον (kólon, “type of food preserved in pots”). Nothing suggests an identity with ἄκυλος (ákulos, “acorn”). Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.ko.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.ko.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ko.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ko.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ko.los/
Noun
ἄκολος • (ákolos) m (genitive ἀκόλου); second declension
- morsel, bit
- Synonyms: βλωμός (blōmós), ψωμός (psōmós)
Inflection
Second declension of ἡ ἄκολος; τῆς ἀκόλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄκολος hē ákolos | τὼ ἀκόλω tṑ akólō | αἱ ἄκολοι hai ákoloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀκόλου tês akólou | τοῖν ἀκόλοιν toîn akóloin | τῶν ἀκόλων tôn akólōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀκόλῳ têi akólōi | ἀκόλοιν akóloin | ταῖς ἀκόλοις taîs akólois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄκολον tḕn ákolon | ἀκόλω akólō | τᾱ̀ς ἀκόλους tā̀s akólous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄκολε ákole | ἀκόλω akólō | ἄκολοι ákoloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἄκολος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄκολος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄκολος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄκολος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄκολος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄκολος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- 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