αὐλητής

See also: αυλητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὐλέω (auléō, “to play the flute”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /a.βliˈtis/ → /a.vliˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aw.le̝ˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βliˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vliˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.vliˈtis/

Noun

αὐλητής • (aulētḗs) m (genitive αὐλητοῦ); first declension

1. (music) a flute-player, flautist.
   • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 941
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.141
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.60
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 581
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 2.43

Inflection

First declension of ὁ αὐλητής; τοῦ αὐλητοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αὐλητής ho aulētḗs	τὼ αὐλητᾱ́ tṑ aulētā́	οἱ αὐληταί hoi aulētaí
Genitive	τοῦ αὐλητοῦ toû aulētoû	τοῖν αὐληταῖν toîn aulētaîn	τῶν αὐλητῶν tôn aulētôn
Dative	τῷ αὐλητῇ tôi aulētêi	τοῖν αὐληταῖν toîn aulētaîn	τοῖς αὐληταῖς toîs aulētaîs
Accusative	τὸν αὐλητήν tòn aulētḗn	τὼ αὐλητᾱ́ tṑ aulētā́	τοὺς αὐλητᾱ́ς toùs aulētā́s
Vocative	αὐλητᾰ́ aulētá	αὐλητᾱ́ aulētā́	αὐληταί aulētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• αὐλητρίς (aulētrís) (feminine)

Descendants

• English: aulete
• Greek: αυλητής (avlitís)

Further reading

• “αὐλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὐλητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αὐλητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐλητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G834 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • flute-player idem, page 330.
  • piper idem, page 614.