πυλών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πύλη (púlē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.lɔ̌ːn/ → /pyˈlon/ → /piˈlon/

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

Noun

πῠλών • (pŭlṓn) m (genitive πῠλῶνος); third declension

1. a gateway

Declension

Third declension of ὁ πῠλών; τοῦ πῠλῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠλών ho pŭlṓn	τὼ πῠλῶνε tṑ pŭlône	οἱ πῠλῶνες hoi pŭlônes
Genitive	τοῦ πῠλῶνος toû pŭlônos	τοῖν πῠλώνοιν toîn pŭlṓnoin	τῶν πῠλώνων tôn pŭlṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠλῶνῐ tôi pŭlônĭ	τοῖν πῠλώνοιν toîn pŭlṓnoin	τοῖς πῠλῶσῐ / πῠλῶσῐν toîs pŭlôsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῠλῶνᾰ tòn pŭlônă	τὼ πῠλῶνε tṑ pŭlône	τοὺς πῠλῶνᾰς toùs pŭlônăs
Vocative	πῠλών pŭlṓn	πῠλῶνε pŭlône	πῠλῶνες pŭlônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: пилон (pilon) (learned)
• → English: pylon (learned)
• → French: pylône (learned)
  • → Romanian: pilon
• → Russian: пилон (pilon) (learned)
• ⇒ Greek: πυλώνας (pylónas)

Further reading

• “πυλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυλών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Noun

πυλών • (pylón) f

1. genitive plural of πύλη (pýli)