ἄρκηλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- *ἄρκᾱλος (*árkālos) – Doric
Etymology
Unknown. According to Furnée, the suffix could suggest a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.kɛː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.ke̝.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ci.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ci.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.ci.los/
Noun
ἄρκηλος • (árkēlos) m (genitive ἀρκήλου); second declension
- young panther or a species of panther
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ἄρκηλος; τοῦ ἀρκήλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἄρκηλος ho árkēlos | τὼ ἀρκήλω tṑ arkḗlō | οἱ ἄρκηλοι hoi árkēloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀρκήλου toû arkḗlou | τοῖν ἀρκήλοιν toîn arkḗloin | τῶν ἀρκήλων tôn arkḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀρκήλῳ tôi arkḗlōi | τοῖν ἀρκήλοιν toîn arkḗloin | τοῖς ἀρκήλοις toîs arkḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἄρκηλον tòn árkēlon | τὼ ἀρκήλω tṑ arkḗlō | τοὺς ἀρκήλους toùs arkḗlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄρκηλε árkēle | ἀρκήλω arkḗlō | ἄρκηλοι árkēloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Cretan Greek: άρκαλος (árkalos)
Further reading
- “ἄρκηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄρκηλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρκηλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἄρκηλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 133