ὑδροκήλη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὑγροκήλη (hugrokḗlē)
Etymology
From ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour, hernia”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hy.dro.kɛ̌ː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)y.droˈke̝.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /y.ðroˈci.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /y.ðroˈci.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.ðroˈci.li/
Noun
ὑδροκήλη • (hudrokḗlē) f (genitive ὑδροκήλης); first declension
- (pathology) hydrocele, water in the scrotum
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὑδροκήλη; τῆς ὑδροκήλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὑδροκήλη hē hudrokḗlē | τὼ ὑδροκήλᾱ tṑ hudrokḗlā | αἱ ὑδροκῆλαι hai hudrokêlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὑδροκήλης tês hudrokḗlēs | τοῖν ὑδροκήλαιν toîn hudrokḗlain | τῶν ὑδροκηλῶν tôn hudrokēlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὑδροκήλῃ têi hudrokḗlēi | τοῖν ὑδροκήλαιν toîn hudrokḗlain | ταῖς ὑδροκήλαις taîs hudrokḗlais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὑδροκήλην tḕn hudrokḗlēn | τὼ ὑδροκήλᾱ tṑ hudrokḗlā | τᾱ̀ς ὑδροκήλᾱς tā̀s hudrokḗlās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὑδροκήλη hudrokḗlē | ὑδροκήλᾱ hudrokḗlā | ὑδροκῆλαι hudrokêlai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: hydrocele
Further reading
- “ὑδροκήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὑδροκήλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette