μάτρυλλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μάστρυλλος (mástrullos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek source of μαστροπός (mastropós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /má.tryl.los/ → /ˈma.tryl.los/ → /ˈma.tri.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.tryl.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tryl.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tryl.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tryl.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tri.los/

Noun

μάτρυλλος • (mátrullos) m (genitive ματρύλλου); second declension

1. pimp

   Synonym: μαστροπός (mastropós)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μάτρυλλος; τοῦ ματρύλλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μάτρυλλος ho mátrullos	τὼ ματρύλλω tṑ matrúllō	οἱ μάτρυλλοι hoi mátrulloi
Genitive	τοῦ ματρύλλου toû matrúllou	τοῖν ματρύλλοιν toîn matrúlloin	τῶν ματρύλλων tôn matrúllōn
Dative	τῷ ματρύλλῳ tôi matrúllōi	τοῖν ματρύλλοιν toîn matrúlloin	τοῖς ματρύλλοις toîs matrúllois
Accusative	τὸν μάτρυλλον tòn mátrullon	τὼ ματρύλλω tṑ matrúllō	τοὺς ματρύλλους toùs matrúllous
Vocative	μάτρυλλε mátrulle	ματρύλλω matrúllō	μάτρυλλοι mátrulloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μάτρυλλα (mátrulla)
• ματρύλλιον (matrúllion)

 

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: مارتولوز (martoloz, “pimp”)

Further reading

• “μάτρυλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάτρυλλος 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