πτολίεθρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πτόλις (ptólis), variant of πόλις (pólis, “city”) +‎ -θρον (-thron). Olsen calls the phonetic details "quite obscure."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pto.lí.e.tʰron/ → /ptoˈli.e.θron/ → /ptoˈli.e.θron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pto.lí.e.tʰron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ptoˈli.e.tʰron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ptoˈli.e.θron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ptoˈli.e.θron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ptoˈli.e.θron/

Noun

πτολίεθρον • (ptolíethron) n

1. (Epic) city
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.1–2:

     Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
     πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·

     Ándra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà
     plánkhthē, epeì Troíēs hieròn ptolíethron éperse;

     Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:

Synonyms

• πτόλις (ptólis), πόλις (pólis)

References

• “πτολίεθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτολίεθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πτολίεθρον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πτολίεθρον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πτολίεθρον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter