αὐλαία

See also: αυλαία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὐλή (aulḗ) + -αίᾱ (-aíā), feminine of -αῖος (-aîos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.lǎi̯.aː/ → /aˈβlɛ.a/ → /aˈvle.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lǎi̯.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /awˈlɛ.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈβlɛ.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈvle.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈvle.a/

Noun

αὐλαίᾱ • (aulaíā) f (genitive αὐλαίᾱς); first declension

1. curtain, especially in the theatre
2. hunting net
3. (in the plural) screens to protect a wall against missiles
4. (Byzantine) tent

Declension

First declension of ἡ αὐλαίᾱ; τῆς αὐλαίᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐλαίᾱ hē aulaíā	τὼ αὐλαίᾱ tṑ aulaíā	αἱ αὐλαῖαι hai aulaîai
Genitive	τῆς αὐλαίᾱς tês aulaíās	τοῖν αὐλαίαιν toîn aulaíain	τῶν αὐλαιῶν tôn aulaiôn
Dative	τῇ αὐλαίᾳ têi aulaíāi	τοῖν αὐλαίαιν toîn aulaíain	ταῖς αὐλαίαις taîs aulaíais
Accusative	τὴν αὐλαίᾱν tḕn aulaíān	τὼ αὐλαίᾱ tṑ aulaíā	τᾱ̀ς αὐλαίᾱς tā̀s aulaíās
Vocative	αὐλαίᾱ aulaíā	αὐλαίᾱ aulaíā	αὐλαῖαι aulaîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αυλαία (avlaía)
• Pontic Greek: αυλαία (avlaía)
• → Latin: aulaeum
  • → Albanian: avlëmend
• → Latin: cōrtīna (“curtain”) (calque) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• αὐλαία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐλαία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• αὐλαία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “αὐλαία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “αὐλαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press