πίτυλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. The connection with πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) and πέτομαι (pétomai, “to dart, rush”) does not convince.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.ty.los/ → /ˈpi.ty.los/ → /ˈpi.ti.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pí.ty.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ty.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ty.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ty.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ti.los/

Noun

πῐ́τῠλος • (pĭ́tŭlos) m (genitive πῐτῠ́λου); second declension

1. sweep, stroke of oars
2. shower, torrent
3. onslaught, attack, fit

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́τῠλος; τοῦ πῐτῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́τῠλος ho pĭ́tŭlos	τὼ πῐτῠ́λω tṑ pĭtŭ́lō	οἱ πῐ́τῠλοι hoi pĭ́tŭloi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐτῠ́λου toû pĭtŭ́lou	τοῖν πῐτῠ́λοιν toîn pĭtŭ́loin	τῶν πῐτῠ́λων tôn pĭtŭ́lōn
Dative	τῷ πῐτῠ́λῳ tôi pĭtŭ́lōi	τοῖν πῐτῠ́λοιν toîn pĭtŭ́loin	τοῖς πῐτῠ́λοις toîs pĭtŭ́lois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́τῠλον tòn pĭ́tŭlon	τὼ πῐτῠ́λω tṑ pĭtŭ́lō	τοὺς πῐτῠ́λους toùs pĭtŭ́lous
Vocative	πῐ́τῠλε pĭ́tŭle	πῐτῠ́λω pĭtŭ́lō	πῐ́τῠλοι pĭ́tŭloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πιτυλεύω (pituleúō)
• πιτυλίζω (pitulízō)

 

Further reading

• “πίτυλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίτυλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίτυλος 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