κορδύλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κουρῠ́λος (kourŭ́los)
Etymology
Perhaps related to κορδῡ́λη (kordū́lē, “swelling”), after the crest on the back. According to Beekes, probably Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kor.dý.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /korˈdy.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /korˈðy.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /korˈðy.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /korˈði.los/
Noun
κορδῠ́λος • (kordŭ́los) m (genitive κορδῠ́λου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κορδῠ́λος ho kordŭ́los |
τὼ κορδῠ́λω tṑ kordŭ́lō |
οἱ κορδῠ́λοι hoi kordŭ́loi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κορδῠ́λου toû kordŭ́lou |
τοῖν κορδῠ́λοιν toîn kordŭ́loin |
τῶν κορδῠ́λων tôn kordŭ́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κορδῠ́λῳ tōî kordŭ́lōi |
τοῖν κορδῠ́λοιν toîn kordŭ́loin |
τοῖς κορδῠ́λοις toîs kordŭ́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κορδῠ́λον tòn kordŭ́lon |
τὼ κορδῠ́λω tṑ kordŭ́lō |
τοὺς κορδῠ́λους toùs kordŭ́lous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κορδῠ́λε kordŭ́le |
κορδῠ́λω kordŭ́lō |
κορδῠ́λοι kordŭ́loi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Cordylus
Further reading
- “κορδύλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κορδύλος 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