ἄντλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄντλον (ántlon)

Etymology

Connection with Latin sentīna (“bilgewater”) is impossible in Indo-European terms, as *sm̥- would give ἁ- (ha-) and not ἁν- (han-). Has been compared with Hittite [script needed] (ḫan-, “to draw water”), although it requires an unusual suffix -τλος (-tlos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /án.tlos/ → /ˈan.tlos/ → /ˈan.dlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /án.tlos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈan.dlos/

Noun

ἄντλος • (ántlos) m (genitive ἄντλου); second declension

1. hold of a ship
2. bilgewater
3. scuttle, sink
4. bucket, pail
5. heap of corn, threshed but not yet cleaned

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ᾰ̓́ντλος; τοῦ ᾰ̓́ντλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ᾰ̓́ντλος ho ắntlos	τὼ ᾰ̓́ντλω tṑ ắntlō	οἱ ᾰ̓́ντλοι hoi ắntloi
Genitive	τοῦ ᾰ̓́ντλου toû ắntlou	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ντλοιν toîn ắntloin	τῶν ᾰ̓́ντλων tôn ắntlōn
Dative	τῷ ᾰ̓́ντλῳ tôi ắntlōi	τοῖν ᾰ̓́ντλοιν toîn ắntloin	τοῖς ᾰ̓́ντλοις toîs ắntlois
Accusative	τὸν ᾰ̓́ντλον tòn ắntlon	τὼ ᾰ̓́ντλω tṑ ắntlō	τοὺς ᾰ̓́ντλους toùs ắntlous
Vocative	ᾰ̓́ντλε ắntle	ᾰ̓́ντλω ắntlō	ᾰ̓́ντλοι ắntloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀντλέω (antléō)
• ἀντλία (antlía)
• ἀντλίον (antlíon)

Further reading

• “ἄντλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄντλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄντλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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