κανθήλια

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κανθήλιον (kanthḗlion)

Etymology

The relation with κανθίαι (kanthíai, “creels”), κάνθων (kánthōn, “pack-ass”) and κανθίς (kanthís, “dung of an ass”) is unclear, due to their specialized technical meanings. Formally, the word can be compared with κειμήλια (keimḗlia) and γαμήλιος (gamḗlios). According to Deroy, it is a Mediterranean substrate word. Furnée connects it with ἀνθήλιον (anthḗlion, “packsaddle”), with alternation k/-zero and assumes Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kan.tʰɛ̌ː.li.a/ → /kanˈθi.li.a/ → /kanˈθi.li.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kan.tʰɛ̌ː.li.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kanˈtʰe̝.li.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.li.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.li.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kanˈθi.li.a/

Noun

κανθήλια • (kanthḗlia) n pl (genitive κανθηλίων); second declension

1. panniers at the sides of a packsaddle
2. large baskets for carrying grapes
3. wooden lattice shelter at a ship's stern

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ κανθήλιᾰ; τῶν κανθηλίων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ κανθήλιᾰ tà kanthḗlia
Genitive	τῶν κανθηλίων tôn kanthēlíōn
Dative	τοῖς κανθηλίοις toîs kanthēlíois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ κανθήλιᾰ tà kanthḗlia
Vocative	κανθήλιᾰ kanthḗlia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κανθηλικός (kanthēlikós)
• κανθήλιος (kanthḗlios)

 

Further reading

• “κανθήλια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κανθήλια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κανθήλια”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635