ἀρβύλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀρβύκη (arbúkē)
• ἀράβυλας (arábulas)

Etymology

According to Beekes from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.bý.lɛː/ → /arˈβy.li/ → /arˈvi.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.bý.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈby.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈβy.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈvy.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈvi.li/

Noun

ἀρβύλη • (arbúlē) f (genitive ἀρβύλης); first declension

1. kind of tough shoe or half-boot

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀρβύλη; τῆς ἀρβύλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀρβύλη hē arbúlē	τὼ ἀρβύλᾱ tṑ arbúlā	αἱ ἀρβύλαι hai arbúlai
Genitive	τῆς ἀρβύλης tês arbúlēs	τοῖν ἀρβύλαιν toîn arbúlain	τῶν ἀρβυλῶν tôn arbulôn
Dative	τῇ ἀρβύλῃ têi arbúlēi	τοῖν ἀρβύλαιν toîn arbúlain	ταῖς ἀρβύλαις taîs arbúlais
Accusative	τὴν ἀρβύλην tḕn arbúlēn	τὼ ἀρβύλᾱ tṑ arbúlā	τᾱ̀ς ἀρβύλᾱς tā̀s arbúlās
Vocative	ἀρβύλη arbúlē	ἀρβύλᾱ arbúlā	ἀρβύλαι arbúlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κατάρβυλος (katárbulos)

Descendants

• ⇒ Greek: αρβύλα (arvýla)

Further reading

• “ἀρβύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρβύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρβύλη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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