κύλινδρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῠλίνδω (kŭlíndō, “I roll”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.lin.dros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.lin.dros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.lin.dros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.lin.dros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.lin.dros/

Noun

κῠ́λινδρος • (kŭ́lindros) m (genitive κῠλίνδρου); second declension

round stone, tumbler, marble (child's toy)
roller, cylinder
roll of a book, volume

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́λινδρος; τοῦ κῠλίνδρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́λινδρος ho kŭ́lindros	τὼ κῠλίνδρω tṑ kŭlíndrō	οἱ κῠ́λινδροι hoi kŭ́lindroi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠλίνδρου toû kŭlíndrou	τοῖν κῠλίνδροιν toîn kŭlíndroin	τῶν κῠλίνδρων tôn kŭlíndrōn
Dative	τῷ κῠλίνδρῳ tōî kŭlíndrōi	τοῖν κῠλίνδροιν toîn kŭlíndroin	τοῖς κῠλίνδροις toîs kŭlíndrois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́λινδρον tòn kŭ́lindron	τὼ κῠλίνδρω tṑ kŭlíndrō	τοὺς κῠλίνδρους toùs kŭlíndrous
Vocative	κῠ́λινδρε kŭ́lindre	κῠλίνδρω kŭlíndrō	κῠ́λινδροι kŭ́lindroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: κύλινδρος (kýlindros)
→ Latin: cylindrus
- → Albanian: cilindër
- → Danish: cylinder
- → Dutch: cilinder, cylinder (superseded)
  - Afrikaans: silinder
  - → Caribbean Javanese: slènder
  - → Indonesian: silinder
- → Middle French: chilindre
  - French: cylindre
    - → Ottoman Turkish: سلندر (silinder), سیلندر (silindir)
      - Turkish: silindir
    - → Romanian: cilindru
  - → English: cylinder
    - → Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
    - → Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)
- → Galician: cilindro
- → German: Zylinder, Cylinder (obsolete)
  - → Russian: цилиндр (cilindr)
    - → Mongolian: цилиндр (cilindr)
    - → Uyghur: سىلىندىر (silindir)
  - → Ukrainian: циліндр (cylindr)
  - → Yiddish: צילינדער (tsilinder)
- → Italian: cilindro
- → Norwegian: sylinder
- → Portuguese: cilindro
- → Spanish: cilindro
- → Swedish: cylinder
→ Medieval Latin: calandrus
- → Middle French: calandre, calende
  - French: calandre
    - → English: calander
  - → Dutch: kalander, klander
    - Afrikaans: kalander

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κυλίνδω (> DER 1. κύλινδρος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 800

Further reading

“κύλινδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κύλινδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κύλινδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κύλινδρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).

Noun

κύλινδρος • (kýlindros) m (plural κύλινδροι)

(geometry) cylinder

Derived terms

κυλινδρόμυλος m (kylindrómylos, “roller mill”)
κυλινδροπίστονο n (kylindropístono, “cylinder and piston”)