σόλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A foreign borrowing. Has been compared with Hittite [script needed] (šulii̯a-, “lead”). Possibly a term of Gypsy-like street tricksters, see σαλός (salós, “fool”) starting to appear with Christians as a synonym of μωρός (mōrós) from the 4th century CE and Arabic سَالُوس (sālūs, “blandishment”) only found from such slang.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /só.los/ → /ˈso.los/ → /ˈso.los/

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

Noun

σόλος • (sólos) m (genitive σόλου); second declension

1. mass or lump of iron used as a discus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σόλος; τοῦ σόλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σόλος ho sólos	τὼ σόλω tṑ sólō	οἱ σόλοι hoi sóloi
Genitive	τοῦ σόλου toû sólou	τοῖν σόλοιν toîn sóloin	τῶν σόλων tôn sólōn
Dative	τῷ σόλῳ tôi sólōi	τοῖν σόλοιν toîn sóloin	τοῖς σόλοις toîs sólois
Accusative	τὸν σόλον tòn sólon	τὼ σόλω tṑ sólō	τοὺς σόλους toùs sólous
Vocative	σόλε sóle	σόλω sólō	σόλοι sóloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σόλος 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, “Pre-Greek”