τῆλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
There is no certain explanation. Traditionally compared to Latin talea (“stave, cutting”) and Sanskrit ताल (tāla, “palm tree”) but such guesses have been abandoned recently.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛ̂ː.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.lis/
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τῆλῐς hē têlis |
τὼ τήλει tṑ tḗlei |
αἱ τήλεις hai tḗleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τήλεως tês tḗleōs |
τοῖν τηλέοιν toîn tēléoin |
τῶν τήλεων tôn tḗleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τήλει têi tḗlei |
τοῖν τηλέοιν toîn tēléoin |
ταῖς τήλεσῐ / τήλεσῐν taîs tḗlesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τῆλῐν tḕn têlin |
τὼ τήλει tṑ tḗlei |
τᾱ̀ς τήλεις tā̀s tḗleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | τῆλῐ têli |
τήλει tḗlei |
τήλεις tḗleis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπιτηλίς (epitēlís)
- τηλίνη (tēlínē)
- τήλινος (tḗlinos)
- τηλίτης (tēlítēs)
Descendants
- Latin: tēlis
References
- τῆλις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τῆλις 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
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