ὄτλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Taken as a verbal noun to ἔτλην (étlēn, “to suffer, undergo”), under the assumption that the prothetic vowel was rhythmically conditioned, or a prefix. However, the word is probably Pre-Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ó.tlos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.tlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.tlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.tlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.tlos/
Noun
ὄτλος • (ótlos) m (genitive ὄτλου); second declension
- suffering, distress, burden
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ὄτλος; τοῦ ὄτλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὄτλος ho ótlos | τὼ ὄτλω tṑ ótlō | οἱ ὄτλοι hoi ótloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὄτλου toû ótlou | τοῖν ὄτλοιν toîn ótloin | τῶν ὄτλων tôn ótlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὄτλῳ tôi ótlōi | τοῖν ὄτλοιν toîn ótloin | τοῖς ὄτλοις toîs ótlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὄτλον tòn ótlon | τὼ ὄτλω tṑ ótlō | τοὺς ὄτλους toùs ótlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄτλε ótle | ὄτλω ótlō | ὄτλοι ótloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀτλέω (otléō)
- ὄτλημα (ótlēma)
- ὀτλήμων (otlḗmōn)
Further reading
- “ὄτλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄτλος 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