χαλινός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • χάλιννος (khálinnos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek origin is probable, as it is difficult to explain "χαλ-" from Indo-European and as a suffix "-ιν-" is frequent in Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

χᾰλῑνός • (khalīnós) m (genitive χᾰλῑνοῦ); second declension

  1. bridle, rein, bit

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ χᾰλῑνός; τοῦ χᾰλῑνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ χᾰλῑνός
ho khalīnós		 τὼ χᾰλῑνώ
tṑ khalīnṓ		 οἱ χᾰλῑνοί
hoi khalīnoí
Genitive τοῦ χᾰλῑνοῦ
toû khalīnoû		 τοῖν χᾰλῑνοῖν
toîn khalīnoîn		 τῶν χᾰλῑνῶν
tôn khalīnôn
Dative τῷ χᾰλῑνῷ
tôi khalīnôi		 τοῖν χᾰλῑνοῖν
toîn khalīnoîn		 τοῖς χᾰλῑνοῖς
toîs khalīnoîs
Accusative τὸν χᾰλῑνόν
tòn khalīnón		 τὼ χᾰλῑνώ
tṑ khalīnṓ		 τοὺς χᾰλῑνούς
toùs khalīnoús
Vocative χᾰλῑνέ
khalīné		 χᾰλῑνώ
khalīnṓ		 χᾰλῑνοί
khalīnoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • χαλιναγογέω (khalinagogéō)
  • χαλιναγωγία (khalinagōgía)
  • χαλιναγωγός (khalinagōgós)
  • χαλινάριον (khalinárion)
  • χαλινῖτις (khalinîtis)
  • χαλινοποιική (khalinopoiikḗ)
  • χαλινοποιός (khalinopoiós)
  • χαλινουργός (khalinourgós)
  • χαλινοφάγος (khalinophágos)
  • χαλινόω (khalinóō)
  • χαλίνωσις (khalínōsis)
  • χαλινωτήρια (khalinōtḗria)

Descendants

Further reading

Greek

Noun

χαλινός • (chalinós) m (plural χαλινοί)

  1. Alternative form of χαλινάρι (chalinári)
  2. (anatomy) frenulum

Declension
declension of χαλινός
singular plural
nominative χαλινός • χαλινοί •
genitive χαλινού • χαλινών •
accusative χαλινό • χαλινούς •
vocative χαλινέ • χαλινοί •
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