κηρύλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κειρύλος (keirúlos)

Etymology

No etymology. Beekes states that the suffix "-υλο-" is typical of Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.rý.los/ → /ciˈry.los/ → /ciˈri.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.rý.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈry.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈry.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈry.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈri.los/

Noun

κηρύλος • (kērúlos) m (genitive κηρύλου); second declension

1. A fabulous sea bird, identified with the ἀλκυών (alkuṓn)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κηρῠ́λος; τοῦ κηρῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κηρῠ́λος ho kērŭ́los	τὼ κηρῠ́λω tṑ kērŭ́lō	οἱ κηρῠ́λοι hoi kērŭ́loi
Genitive	τοῦ κηρῠ́λου toû kērŭ́lou	τοῖν κηρῠ́λοιν toîn kērŭ́loin	τῶν κηρῠ́λων tôn kērŭ́lōn
Dative	τῷ κηρῠ́λῳ tôi kērŭ́lōi	τοῖν κηρῠ́λοιν toîn kērŭ́loin	τοῖς κηρῠ́λοις toîs kērŭ́lois
Accusative	τὸν κηρῠ́λον tòn kērŭ́lon	τὼ κηρῠ́λω tṑ kērŭ́lō	τοὺς κηρῠ́λους toùs kērŭ́lous
Vocative	κηρῠ́λε kērŭ́le	κηρῠ́λω kērŭ́lō	κηρῠ́λοι kērŭ́loi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: قِرِلَّى (qirillā)

Further reading

• “κηρύλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κηρύλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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