κηρύλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κειρύλος (keirúlos)
Etymology
No etymology. Beekes states that the suffix "-υλο-" is typical of Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛː.rý.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝ˈry.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈry.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈry.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈri.los/
Noun
κηρύλος • (kērúlos) m (genitive κηρύλου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κηρῠ́λος ho kērŭ́los |
τὼ κηρῠ́λω tṑ kērŭ́lō |
οἱ κηρῠ́λοι hoi kērŭ́loi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κηρῠ́λου toû kērŭ́lou |
τοῖν κηρῠ́λοιν toîn kērŭ́loin |
τῶν κηρῠ́λων tôn kērŭ́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κηρῠ́λῳ tōî kērŭ́lōi |
τοῖν κηρῠ́λοιν toîn kērŭ́loin |
τοῖς κηρῠ́λοις toîs kērŭ́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κηρῠ́λον tòn kērŭ́lon |
τὼ κηρῠ́λω tṑ kērŭ́lō |
τοὺς κηρῠ́λους toùs kērŭ́lous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κηρῠ́λε kērŭ́le |
κηρῠ́λω kērŭ́lō |
κηρῠ́λοι kērŭ́loi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: قِرِلَّى (qirillā)
Further reading
- “κηρύλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κηρύλος 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