ὀβελός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀβολός (obolós)
- ὀδελός (odelós) – Doric
- ὀβελλός (obellós) – Thessalian
Etymology
Possibly an alteration of βέλος (bélos), but the initial vocal cannot be accounted for. According to Beekes and Furnée, the word is clearly Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.be.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.bɛˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.βeˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.veˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.veˈlos/
Noun
ὀβελός • (obelós) m (genitive ὀβελοῦ); second declension
- a spit, rod
- (ὀβελὸς λίθινος) a pointed square pillar, obelisk
- a horizontal line
- Lucianus, Essays in Portraiture Defended 24
Usage notes
The horizontal line was used as a critical mark to point out that a passage was spurious, but with one point below and one above (÷) (ὀβελὸς περιστιγμένος (obelòs peristigménos)) it denoted superfluous passages, especially in philosophical writings.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀβελός ho obelós |
τὼ ὀβελώ tṑ obelṓ |
οἱ ὀβελοί hoi obeloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀβελοῦ toû obeloû |
τοῖν ὀβελοῖν toîn obeloîn |
τῶν ὀβελῶν tôn obelôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀβελῷ tôi obelôi |
τοῖν ὀβελοῖν toîn obeloîn |
τοῖς ὀβελοῖς toîs obeloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀβελόν tòn obelón |
τὼ ὀβελώ tṑ obelṓ |
τοὺς ὀβελούς toùs obeloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀβελέ obelé |
ὀβελώ obelṓ |
ὀβελοί obeloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀβελίσκος (obelískos)
References
- ὀβελός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὀβελός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀβελός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὀβελός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ὀβελός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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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