ὕδραυλις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὕδραυλος (húdraulos)
Etymology
From ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hý.drau̯.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)y.draw.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ðra.βlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ðra.vlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ðra.vlis/
Noun
ὕδραυλῐς • (húdraulĭs) f (genitive ὑδραύλεως); third declension
- water organ, invented by Ctesibius
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ὕδραυλῐς hē húdraulĭs |
τὼ ὑδραύλει tṑ hudraúlei |
αἱ ὑδραύλεις hai hudraúleis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ὑδραύλεως tês hudraúleōs |
τοῖν ὑδραυλέοιν toîn hudrauléoin |
τῶν ὑδραύλεων tôn hudraúleōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ὑδραύλει tēî hudraúlei |
τοῖν ὑδραυλέοιν toîn hudrauléoin |
ταῖς ὑδραύλεσῐ / ὑδραύλεσῐν taîs hudraúlesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ὕδραυλῐν tḕn húdraulĭn |
τὼ ὑδραύλει tṑ hudraúlei |
τᾱ̀ς ὑδραύλεις tā̀s hudraúleis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὕδραυλῐ húdraulĭ |
ὑδραύλει hudraúlei |
ὑδραύλεις hudraúleis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὑδραύλης (hudraúlēs)
- ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós)
References
- “ὕδραυλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὕδραυλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette