χλεύη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”), the same root of Proto-Slavic *glumiti (“to mock, to joke”) and Proto-Germanic *glaumaz (“jubilation”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰlěu̯.ɛː/ → /ˈxle.βi/ → /ˈxle.vi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰlěu̯.ɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰle.we̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxle.βi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxle.vi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxle.vi/

Noun

χλεύη • (khleúē) f (genitive χλεύης); first declension

1. joke, jest

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χλεύη; τῆς χλεύης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χλεύη hē khleúē	τὼ χλεύᾱ tṑ khleúā	αἱ χλεῦαι hai khleûai
Genitive	τῆς χλεύης tês khleúēs	τοῖν χλεύαιν toîn khleúain	τῶν χλευῶν tôn khleuôn
Dative	τῇ χλεύῃ têi khleúēi	τοῖν χλεύαιν toîn khleúain	ταῖς χλεύαις taîs khleúais
Accusative	τὴν χλεύην tḕn khleúēn	τὼ χλεύᾱ tṑ khleúā	τᾱ̀ς χλεύᾱς tā̀s khleúās
Vocative	χλεύη khleúē	χλεύᾱ khleúā	χλεῦαι khleûai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χλευάζω (khleuázō)
• χλεῦαξ (khleûax)
• χλευασία (khleuasía)
• χλευασμός (khleuasmós)
• χλευαστής (khleuastḗs)
• χλευαστικός (khleuastikós)

Further reading

• “χλεύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χλεύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χλεύη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “χλεύη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011