ἄσιλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the ending in -ιλλ- points to a Pre-Greek origin. Compare ἅμιλλα (hámilla) and ἄργιλλα (árgilla).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.sil.la/ → /ˈa.sil.la/ → /ˈa.si.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.sil.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sil.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sil.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sil.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.la/

Noun

ἄσῐλλᾰ • (ásĭllă) f (genitive ἀσῐ́λλης); first declension

1. yoke for carrying baskets or pails

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἄσῐλλᾰ; τῆς ἀσῐ́λλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἄσῐλλᾰ hē ásĭllă	τὼ ἀσῐ́λλᾱ tṑ asĭ́llā	αἱ ἄσῐλλαι hai ásĭllai
Genitive	τῆς ἀσῐ́λλης tês asĭ́llēs	τοῖν ἀσῐ́λλαιν toîn asĭ́llain	τῶν ἀσῐλλῶν tôn asĭllôn
Dative	τῇ ἀσῐ́λλῃ têi asĭ́llēi	τοῖν ἀσῐ́λλαιν toîn asĭ́llain	ταῖς ἀσῐ́λλαις taîs asĭ́llais
Accusative	τὴν ἄσῐλλᾰν tḕn ásĭllăn	τὼ ἀσῐ́λλᾱ tṑ asĭ́llā	τᾱ̀ς ἀσῐ́λλᾱς tā̀s asĭ́llās
Vocative	ἄσῐλλᾰ ásĭllă	ἀσῐ́λλᾱ asĭ́llā	ἄσῐλλαι ásĭllai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀσιλλοφορέω (asillophoréō)
• ἀσιλλοφόρος (asillophóros)

Further reading

• “ἄσιλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄσιλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄσιλλα 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