πυλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πύλη (púlē, “one wing of a pair of double gates; entrance, orifice”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.lís/ → /pyˈlis/ → /piˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈlis/

Noun

πῠλῐ́ς • (pŭlĭ́s) f (genitive πῠλῐ́δος); third declension

1. little gate, postern.
   1. (pathology) disease of the anus, probably multiple fistula.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πῠλῐ́ς; τῆς πῠλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠλῐ́ς hē pŭlĭ́s	τὼ πῠλῐ́δε tṑ pŭlĭ́de	αἱ πῠλῐ́δες hai pŭlĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς πῠλῐ́δος tês pŭlĭ́dos	τοῖν πῠλῐ́δοιν toîn pŭlĭ́doin	τῶν πῠλῐ́δων tôn pŭlĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ πῠλῐ́δῐ têi pŭlĭ́dĭ	τοῖν πῠλῐ́δοιν toîn pŭlĭ́doin	ταῖς πῠλῐ́σῐ / πῠλῐ́σῐν taîs pŭlĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠλῐ́δᾰ tḕn pŭlĭ́dă	τὼ πῠλῐ́δε tṑ pŭlĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς πῠλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pŭlĭ́dăs
Vocative	πῠλῐ́ς pŭlĭ́s	πῠλῐ́δε pŭlĭ́de	πῠλῐ́δες pŭlĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: Dipylidium

References

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