ὀπάλλιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Ernout and Meillet (endorsed by Beekes), a loanword, likely borrowed from Sanskrit उपल (upala, “gem, stone”),^[1]^[2] possibly a variant of उपर (upara, “lower”), from उप (upa, “below, under, down”).^[3]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.pál.li.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈpal.li.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈpal.li.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈpal.li.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈpa.li.os/

Noun

ὀπᾰ́λλῐος • (opắllĭos) m (genitive ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου); second declension (Byzantine)

opal

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὀπᾰ́λλῐος; τοῦ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀπᾰ́λλῐος ho opắllĭos	τὼ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ω tṑ opăllĭ́ō	οἱ ὀπᾰ́λλῐοι hoi opắllĭoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου toû opăllĭ́ou	τοῖν ὀπᾰλλῐ́οιν toîn opăllĭ́oin	τῶν ὀπᾰλλῐ́ων tôn opăllĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ῳ tōî opăllĭ́ōi	τοῖν ὀπᾰλλῐ́οιν toîn opăllĭ́oin	τοῖς ὀπᾰλλῐ́οις toîs opăllĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸν ὀπᾰ́λλῐον tòn opắllĭon	τὼ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ω tṑ opăllĭ́ō	τοὺς ὀπᾰλλῐ́ους toùs opăllĭ́ous
Vocative	ὀπᾰ́λλῐε opắllĭe	ὀπᾰλλῐ́ω opăllĭ́ō	ὀπᾰ́λλῐοι opắllĭoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: opalus

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀπάλλιος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1089
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “opalus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 462
^ “opal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.