ὀρταλίς

Ancient Greek

Probably from *ὀρτος (*ortos) (meaning unknown) +‎ -αλίς (-alís).

Compare συκαλίς (sukalís) and δορκαλίς (dorkalís), which contain the same suffix.

ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς • (ortălĭ́s) f (genitive ὀρτᾰλῐ́δος); third declension

Third declension of ἡ ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς ὀρτᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς hē ortălĭ́s	τὼ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δε tṑ ortălĭ́de	αἱ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δες hai ortălĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς ὀρτᾰλῐ́δος tês ortălĭ́dos	τοῖν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn ortălĭ́doin	τῶν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δων tôn ortălĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δῐ tēî ortălĭ́dĭ	τοῖν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn ortălĭ́doin	ταῖς ὀρτᾰλῐ́σῐ / ὀρτᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs ortălĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὀρτᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn ortălĭ́dă	τὼ ὀρτᾰλῐ́δε tṑ ortălĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς ὀρτᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s ortălĭ́dăs
Vocative	ὀρτᾰλῐ́ς ortălĭ́s	ὀρτᾰλῐ́δε ortălĭ́de	ὀρτᾰλῐ́δες ortălĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

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