ψωλός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ψώλων (psṓlōn)
Etymology
Related to ψωλή (psōlḗ, “penis with a retracted or removed foreskin”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psɔː.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /psoˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /psoˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /psoˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /psoˈlos/
Noun
ψωλός • (psōlós) m (genitive ψωλοῦ); second declension
- a man whose foreskin is retracted
- (especially) a man with an erection, a horny man
- a circumcised man
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ψωλός ho psōlós |
τὼ ψωλώ tṑ psōlṓ |
οἱ ψωλοί hoi psōloí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ψωλοῦ toû psōloû |
τοῖν ψωλοῖν toîn psōloîn |
τῶν ψωλῶν tôn psōlôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ψωλῷ tōî psōlōî |
τοῖν ψωλοῖν toîn psōloîn |
τοῖς ψωλοῖς toîs psōloîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ψωλόν tòn psōlón |
τὼ ψωλώ tṑ psōlṓ |
τοὺς ψωλούς toùs psōloús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ψωλέ psōlé |
ψωλώ psōlṓ |
ψωλοί psōloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀποψωλέω (apopsōléō)
Further reading
- ψωλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ψωλός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ψωλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “ψωλός”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn