βάκηλος
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare κάβηλος (kábēlos) and κάληβος (kálēbos), with comparable meanings. According to Beekes, the word is probably Anatolian, so perhaps Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bá.kɛː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈba.ke̝.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβa.ci.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈva.ci.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈva.ci.los/
Noun
[edit]βᾰ́κηλος • (bákēlos) m (genitive βᾰκήλου); second declension
- eunuch in the service of Cybele, gallus
- Synonym: γᾰ́λλος (gállos)
- hermaphrodite, effeminate man
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βᾰ́κηλος ho bákēlos |
τὼ βᾰκήλω tṑ bakḗlō |
οἱ βᾰ́κηλοι hoi bákēloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βᾰκήλου toû bakḗlou |
τοῖν βᾰκήλοιν toîn bakḗloin |
τῶν βᾰκήλων tôn bakḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βᾰκήλῳ tôi bakḗlōi |
τοῖν βᾰκήλοιν toîn bakḗloin |
τοῖς βᾰκήλοις toîs bakḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βᾰ́κηλον tòn bákēlon |
τὼ βᾰκήλω tṑ bakḗlō |
τοὺς βᾰκήλους toùs bakḗlous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βᾰ́κηλε bákēle |
βᾰκήλω bakḗlō |
βᾰ́κηλοι bákēloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “βάκηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βάκηλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βάκηλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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, →ISBN
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Anatolian languages
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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