τίλλω
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. This verb cannot be an old primary formation. If not a loan, it must be a denominative from unattested *τίλος (*tílos). There are no cognates outside Greek. Frisk suggests a pre-form *πτίλλω (*ptíllō), which would belong to πτίλον (ptílon, “feather”), via dissimilation in the compounded form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tíl.lɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtil.lo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtil.lo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtil.lo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.lo/
Verb
[edit]τῐ́λλω • (tíllō)
- to pluck or pull out hair
- (passive voice) to have one's hair plucked
- to pluck the harp strings
- to pick so as to extract fibre
- to tear one's hair in sorrow
- (figuratively) to pluck, vex, annoy
Inflection
[edit] Present: τῐ́λλω, τῐ́λλομαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἔτῐλλον | ἔτῐλλες | ἔτῐλλε(ν) | ἐτῐ́λλετον | ἐτῐλλέτην | ἐτῐ́λλομεν | ἐτῐ́λλετε | ἔτῐλλον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐτῐλλόμην | ἐτῐ́λλου | ἐτῐ́λλετο | ἐτῐ́λλεσθον | ἐτῐλλέσθην | ἐτῐλλόμεθᾰ | ἐτῐ́λλεσθε | ἐτῐ́λλοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | τῐλέω | τῐλέεις | τῐλέει | τῐλέετον | τῐλέετον | τῐλέομεν | τῐλέετε | τῐλέουσῐ(ν) | ||||
optative | τῐλέοιμῐ | τῐλέοις | τῐλέοι | τῐλέοιτον | τῐλεοίτην | τῐλέοιμεν | τῐλέοιτε | τῐλέοιεν | |||||
middle | indicative | τῐλέομαι | τῐλέῃ, τῐλέει |
τῐλέεται | τῐλέεσθον | τῐλέεσθον | τῐλεόμεθᾰ | τῐλέεσθε | τῐλέονται | ||||
optative | τῐλεοίμην | τῐλέοιο | τῐλέοιτο | τῐλέοισθον | τῐλεοίσθην | τῐλεοίμεθᾰ | τῐλέοισθε | τῐλέοιντο | |||||
passive | indicative | τῐλησήσομαι | τῐλησήσῃ | τῐλησήσεται | τῐλησήσεσθον | τῐλησήσεσθον | τῐλησησόμεθᾰ | τῐλησήσεσθε | τῐλησήσονται | ||||
optative | τῐλησησοίμην | τῐλησήσοιο | τῐλησήσοιτο | τῐλησήσοισθον | τῐλησησοίσθην | τῐλησησοίμεθᾰ | τῐλησήσοισθε | τῐλησήσοιντο | |||||
active | middle | passive | |||||||||||
infinitive | τῐλέειν | τῐλέεσθαι | τῐλησήσεσθαι | ||||||||||
participle | m | τῐλέων | τῐλεόμενος | τῐλησησόμενος | |||||||||
f | τῐλέουσᾰ | τῐλεομένη | τῐλησησομένη | ||||||||||
n | τῐλέον | τῐλεόμενον | τῐλησησόμενον | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἀποτῐ́λλω (apotíllō)
- θρῠοτῐ́λλω (thruotíllō)
- ὁλοτῐ́λλω (holotíllō)
- πᾰρᾰτῐ́λλω (paratíllō)
- περῐτῐ́λλω (peritíllō)
- τῐλλοπώγων (tillopṓgōn)
- τῐ́λμᾰ (tílma)
- τῐλμός (tilmós)
- τῐ́λσῐς (tílsis)
- τῐ́λτρον (tíltron)
Further reading
[edit]- “τίλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τίλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τίλλω 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