πόλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”): *kʷól-os > *pól-os.

Noun

πόλος • (pólos) m (genitive πόλου); second declension

1. pivot, hinge, axis, pole
2. axis of the celestial sphere
3. (astronomy) pole star
4. celestial sphere, vault of heaven
5. orbit of a star
6. center of the circular threshing floor
7. pole passing through the axletree of a carriage
8. concave sundial, on which the shadow was cast by the gnomon
9. headdress worn by goddesses
10. (architecture) dowel
11. windlass, capstan

Declension

Second declension of ὁ πόλος; τοῦ πόλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πόλος ho pólos	τὼ πόλω tṑ pólō	οἱ πόλοι hoi póloi
Genitive	τοῦ πόλου toû pólou	τοῖν πόλοιν toîn póloin	τῶν πόλων tôn pólōn
Dative	τῷ πόλῳ tôi pólōi	τοῖν πόλοιν toîn póloin	τοῖς πόλοις toîs pólois
Accusative	τὸν πόλον tòn pólon	τὼ πόλω tṑ pólō	τοὺς πόλους toùs pólous
Vocative	πόλε póle	πόλω pólō	πόλοι póloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πολογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (pologrăphĭ́ā)
• πολοκρᾰ́τωρ (polokrắtōr)

Descendants

• Greek: πόλος (pólos)
• → Latin: polus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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

Greek

Noun

πόλος • (pólos) m (plural πόλοι)

1. pole (extreme of an axis)

   Βόρειος Πόλος (North Pole)

2. post (pole in a battery)

Declension

Declension of πόλος

	singular	plural
nominative	πόλος (pólos)	πόλοι (póloi)
genitive	πόλου (pólou)	πόλων (pólon)
accusative	πόλο (pólo)	πόλους (pólous)
vocative	πόλε (póle)	πόλοι (póloi)