ὀλός

See also: όλος and ὅλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unclear. A cross between θολός (tholós, “ink of the cuttlefish”) and ὀρός (orós, “whey”), as assumed by Frisk, is improbable. A Pre-Greek word is possible.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.lós/ → /oˈlos/ → /oˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈlos/

Noun

ὀλός • (olós) m (genitive ὀλοῦ); second declension

1. ink of the cuttlefish
2. (figuratively) blood

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὀλός; τοῦ ὀλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀλός ho olós	τὼ ὀλώ tṑ olṓ	οἱ ὀλοί hoi oloí
Genitive	τοῦ ὀλοῦ toû oloû	τοῖν ὀλοῖν toîn oloîn	τῶν ὀλῶν tôn olôn
Dative	τῷ ὀλῷ tôi olôi	τοῖν ὀλοῖν toîn oloîn	τοῖς ὀλοῖς toîs oloîs
Accusative	τὸν ὀλόν tòn olón	τὼ ὀλώ tṑ olṓ	τοὺς ὀλούς toùs oloús
Vocative	ὀλέ olé	ὀλώ olṓ	ὀλοί oloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

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