πυλεών

Ancient Greek

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πῠλεών • (pŭleṓn) m (genitive πῠλεῶνος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ πῠλεών; τοῦ πῠλεῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠλεών ho pŭleṓn	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ pŭleône	οἱ πῠλεῶνες hoi pŭleônes
Genitive	τοῦ πῠλεῶνος toû pŭleônos	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn pŭleṓnoin	τῶν πῠλεώνων tôn pŭleṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠλεῶνῐ tōî pŭleônĭ	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn pŭleṓnoin	τοῖς πῠλεῶσῐ / πῠλεῶσῐν toîs pŭleôsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῠλεῶνᾰ tòn pŭleônă	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ pŭleône	τοὺς πῠλεῶνᾰς toùs pŭleônăs
Vocative	πῠλεών pŭleṓn	πῠλεῶνε pŭleône	πῠλεῶνες pŭleônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

From Proto-Indo-European *pulu-. Cognates include Sanskrit पुलक (pulaka), Irish ulcha. However, Beekes connects the word with πύλιγξ (púlinx, “curls”) and suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

πῠλεών • (pŭleṓn) m (genitive πῠλεῶνος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ πῠλεών; τοῦ πῠλεῶνος (Laconian)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠλεών ho pŭleṓn	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ pŭleône	τοὶ πῠλεῶνες toì pŭleônes
Genitive	τοῦ πῠλεῶνος toû pŭleônos	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn pŭleṓnoin	τῶν πῠλεώνων tôn pŭleṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠλεῶνῐ tōî pŭleônĭ	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn pŭleṓnoin	τοῖς πῠλεῶσῐ / πῠλεῶσῐν toîs pŭleôsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῠλεῶνᾰ tòn pŭleônă	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ pŭleône	τὼς πῠλεῶνᾰς tṑs pŭleônăs
Vocative	πῠλεών pŭleṓn	πῠλεῶνε pŭleône	πῠλεῶνες pŭleônes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

“πυλεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πυλεών 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