ἀρύβαλλος

Ancient Greek

Probably of Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -αλλος.

ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλος • (ărŭ́băllos) m (genitive ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλου); second declension

a bag or purse, made so as to draw close
- Stesich. 11
- 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 50
a globular oil-flask
- 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1094
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 11.783f

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλος; τοῦ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλος ho ărŭ́băllos	τὼ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλω tṑ ărŭbắllō	οἱ ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλοι hoi ărŭ́bălloi
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλου toû ărŭbắllou	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλοιν toîn ărŭbắlloin	τῶν ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλων tôn ărŭbắllōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλῳ tōî ărŭbắllōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλοιν toîn ărŭbắlloin	τοῖς ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλοις toîs ărŭbắllois
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλον tòn ărŭ́băllon	τὼ ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλω tṑ ărŭbắllō	τοὺς ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλους toùs ărŭbắllous
Vocative	ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλε ărŭ́bălle	ᾰ̓ρῠβᾰ́λλω ărŭbắllō	ᾰ̓ρῠ́βᾰλλοι ărŭ́bălloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

(All borrowed:)

“ἀρύβαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀρύβαλλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
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