ὀκλάς

ὀκλάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Note the glosses κλωκυδά (klōkudá, “sitting down on both feet”) and ὀκκῦλαι (okkûlai, “to prostrate, sit down on one's heels”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.klás/ → /oˈklas/ → /oˈklas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.klás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈklas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈklas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈklas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈklas/

Noun

ὀκλᾰ́ς • (oklás) f (genitive ὀκλᾰ́δος); third declension

1. bent hams

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ὀκλᾰ́ς; τῆς ὀκλᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀκλᾰ́ς hē oklás	τὼ ὀκλᾰ́δε tṑ okláde	αἱ ὀκλᾰ́δες hai okládes
Genitive	τῆς ὀκλᾰ́δος tês okládos	τοῖν ὀκλᾰ́δοιν toîn okládoin	τῶν ὀκλᾰ́δων tôn okládōn
Dative	τῇ ὀκλᾰ́δῐ têi okládi	ὀκλᾰ́δοιν okládoin	ταῖς ὀκλᾰ́σῐ / ὀκλᾰ́σῐν taîs oklási(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀκλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn okláda	ὀκλᾰ́δε okláde	τᾱ̀ς ὀκλᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s okládas
Vocative	ὀκλᾰ́ς oklás	ὀκλᾰ́δε okláde	ὀκλᾰ́δες okládes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ὀκλαδία (okladía)
• ὀκλαδίας (okladías)
• ὀκλαδόν (okladón)
• ὀκλάζω (oklázō)
• ὀκλάξ (okláx)
• ὄκλασις (óklasis)
• ὄκλασμα (óklasma)
• Ὄκλασος (Óklasos)

 

References

• ὀκλάς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀκλάς 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