ὕθλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
No etymology. The word may contain the suffix "-θλο-", as in ἄεθλος (áethlos), but there is no good explanation for initial "ὑ-".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.tʰlos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.tʰlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.θlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.θlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.θlos/
Noun
ὕθλος • (húthlos) m (genitive ὕθλου); second declension
- idle talk, nonsense, prank
- Synonym: φλύαρος (phlúaros)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́θλος; τοῦ ῠ̔́θλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῠ̔́θλος ho húthlos | τὼ ῠ̔́θλω tṑ húthlō | οἱ ῠ̔́θλοι hoi húthloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῠ̔́θλου toû húthlou | τοῖν ῠ̔́θλοιν toîn húthloin | τῶν ῠ̔́θλων tôn húthlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῠ̔́θλῳ tôi húthlōi | τοῖν ῠ̔́θλοιν toîn húthloin | τοῖς ῠ̔́θλοις toîs húthlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῠ̔́θλον tòn húthlon | τὼ ῠ̔́θλω tṑ húthlō | τοὺς ῠ̔́θλους toùs húthlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῠ̔́θλε húthle | ῠ̔́θλω húthlō | ῠ̔́θλοι húthloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὑθλέω (huthléō)
- ὑθλορρήμων (huthlorrhḗmōn)
Further reading
- ὕθλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕθλος 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