πύελος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πύαλος (púalos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek but it has also been compared with πλύνω (plúnō, “to wash, clean”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pý.e.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.e.los/

Noun

πῠ́ελος • (pŭ́elos) f (genitive πῠέλου); second declension

trough for feeding animals
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.552–553:
  παπτήνασα δὲ χῆνας ἐνὶ μεγάροισ’ ἐνόησα
  πυρὸν ἐρεπτομένους παρὰ πύελον, ἧχι πάρος περ.
  paptḗnasa dè khênas enì megárois’ enóēsa
  puròn ereptoménous parà púelon, hêkhi páros per.
  Scanning around, I saw geese in the halls,
  feeding on wheat besides a through, where [they did] always before.
1. bathtub
  - 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1060:
    τὰς πυέλους φησὶν καταλήψεσθʼ ἐν βαλανείῳ.
    tàs puélous phēsìn katalḗpsesth en balaneíōi.
    They say that they will seize the bathtubs in your bathroom.
2. vat, kitchen boiler
3. coffin
4. (anatomy) infundibulum

Declension

Second declension of ἡ πῠ́ελος; τῆς πῠέλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠ́ελος hē pŭ́elos	τὼ πῠέλω tṑ pŭélō	αἱ πῠ́ελοι hai pŭ́eloi
Genitive	τῆς πῠέλου tês pŭélou	τοῖν πῠέλοιν toîn pŭéloin	τῶν πῠέλων tôn pŭélōn
Dative	τῇ πῠέλῳ tēî pŭélōi	τοῖν πῠέλοιν toîn pŭéloin	ταῖς πῠέλοις taîs pŭélois
Accusative	τὴν πῠ́ελον tḕn pŭ́elon	τὼ πῠέλω tṑ pŭélō	τᾱ̀ς πῠέλους tā̀s pŭélous
Vocative	πῠ́ελε pŭ́ele	πῠέλω pŭélō	πῠ́ελοι pŭ́eloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

λουτήρ (loutḗr)
ἀσάμινθος (asáminthos)

Derived terms

πυέλιον (puélion)
πυελίς (puelís)
πυελώδης (puelṓdēs)

Further reading

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