αὖλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“pass the night”), the same root of αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /âu̯.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈaw.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.βlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.vlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.vlis/
Noun
αὖλῐς • (aûlĭs) f (genitive αὔλῐδος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ αὖλῐς hē aûlĭs |
τὼ αὔλῐδε tṑ aúlĭde |
αἱ αὔλῐδες hai aúlĭdes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς αὔλῐδος tês aúlĭdos |
τοῖν αὐλῐ́δοιν toîn aulĭ́doin |
τῶν αὐλῐ́δων tôn aulĭ́dōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ αὔλῐδῐ tēî aúlĭdĭ |
τοῖν αὐλῐ́δοιν toîn aulĭ́doin |
ταῖς αὔλῐσῐ / αὔλῐσῐν taîs aúlĭsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν αὔλῐδᾰ tḕn aúlĭdă |
τὼ αὔλῐδε tṑ aúlĭde |
τᾱ̀ς αὔλῐδᾰς tā̀s aúlĭdăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αὖλῐς aûlĭs |
αὔλῐδε aúlĭde |
αὔλῐδες aúlĭdes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “αὖλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὖλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “αὖλις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αὖλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὖλις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- αὖλις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αὐλή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 169