ἄρκηλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• *ἄρκᾱλος (*árkālos) — Doric

Etymology

Unknown. According to Furnée, the suffix could suggest a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.kɛː.los/ → /ˈar.ci.los/ → /ˈar.ci.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.kɛː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ke̝.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ci.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ci.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ci.los/

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Noun

ἄρκηλος • (árkēlos) m (genitive ἀρκήλου); second declension

1. young panther or a species of panther

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄρκηλος; τοῦ ἀρκήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄρκηλος ho árkēlos	τὼ ἀρκήλω tṑ arkḗlō	οἱ ἄρκηλοι hoi árkēloi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρκήλου toû arkḗlou	τοῖν ἀρκήλοιν toîn arkḗloin	τῶν ἀρκήλων tôn arkḗlōn
Dative	τῷ ἀρκήλῳ tôi arkḗlōi	τοῖν ἀρκήλοιν toîn arkḗloin	τοῖς ἀρκήλοις toîs arkḗlois
Accusative	τὸν ἄρκηλον tòn árkēlon	τὼ ἀρκήλω tṑ arkḗlō	τοὺς ἀρκήλους toùs arkḗlous
Vocative	ἄρκηλε árkēle	ἀρκήλω arkḗlō	ἄρκηλοι árkēloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Cretan Greek: άρκαλος (árkalos)

Further reading

• “ἄρκηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄρκηλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄρκηλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄρκηλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 133