αὐλητρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine form of αὐλητής (aulētḗs, “flute-player”), from αὐλέω (auléō, “to play the flute”) +‎ -τρις (-tris, feminine agent-noun suffix) from αὐλός (aulós, “flute”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛː.trís/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aw.le̝ˈtris/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βliˈtris/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vliˈtris/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.vliˈtris/

Noun

αὐλητρῐ́ς • (aulētrĭ́s) f (genitive αὐλητρῐ́δος); third declension

(music) A flute-girl in ancient Greece, whose services may also have been sexual.

Declension

Third declension of ἡ αὐλητρῐ́ς; τῆς αὐλητρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐλητρῐ́ς hē aulētrĭ́s	τὼ αὐλητρῐ́δε tṑ aulētrĭ́de	αἱ αὐλητρῐ́δες hai aulētrĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς αὐλητρῐ́δος tês aulētrĭ́dos	τοῖν αὐλητρῐ́δοιν toîn aulētrĭ́doin	τῶν αὐλητρῐ́δων tôn aulētrĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ αὐλητρῐ́δῐ tēî aulētrĭ́dĭ	τοῖν αὐλητρῐ́δοιν toîn aulētrĭ́doin	ταῖς αὐλητρῐ́σῐ / αὐλητρῐ́σῐν taîs aulētrĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν αὐλητρῐ́δᾰ tḕn aulētrĭ́dă	τὼ αὐλητρῐ́δε tṑ aulētrĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς αὐλητρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s aulētrĭ́dăs
Vocative	αὐλητρῐ́ς aulētrĭ́s	αὐλητρῐ́δε aulētrĭ́de	αὐλητρῐ́δες aulētrĭ́des
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.

Descendants

auletris

References

“αὐλητρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“αὐλητρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
αὐλητρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
αὐλητρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- flute-girl idem, page 330.
- flute-player idem, page 330.