αἴθαλος

• αἰθᾰλός (aithălós)

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐁁𐀲𐀫 (a3-ta-ro), from Proto-Hellenic *áitʰalos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“fire”). Compare Albanian jezull (“cloud of dust or smoke; ashes”) and Proto-Germanic *ailą (“fire”).

αἴθᾰλος • (aíthălos) m (genitive αἰθᾰ́λου); second declension

1. smoky flame and thick black smoke rising up from the sacked, scorched Troy
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 911
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Alexandra 55
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On the Diseases of Women 1.91
   1. soot
      • Semus 24
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 1.4
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 17.1
   2. a cinder, an ember, a scintilla
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 12.219
2. a kind of black grape grown in Egypt
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 14.74–75

• → Latin: aethalus

αἴθᾰλος • (aíthălos) m or f (neuter αἴθᾰλον); second declension

1. burnt-coloured, dark brown, dusky, pitchy, blackish, dark
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 659

• (burnt-coloured, dark brown): αἰθαλόεις (aithalóeis)

• Translingual: Aethalium

• αἰθήρ (aithḗr)
• αἶθος (aîthos)
• αἴθω (aíthō)

• “αἴθαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἴθᾰλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)