ὀπάλλιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Ernout and Meillet (endorsed by Beekes), a loanword, likely borrowed from Sanskrit उपल (upala, “gem, stone”),^[1]^[2] possibly a variant of उपर (upara, “lower”), from उप (upa, “below, under, down”).^[3]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.pál.li.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈpal.li.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈpal.li.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈpal.li.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈpa.li.os/

Noun

ὀπᾰ́λλῐος • (opállios) m (genitive ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου); second declension (Byzantine)

opal

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὀπᾰ́λλῐος; τοῦ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὀπᾰ́λλῐος ho opállios	τὼ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ω tṑ opallíō	οἱ ὀπᾰ́λλῐοι hoi opállioi
Genitive	τοῦ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ου toû opallíou	τοῖν ὀπᾰλλῐ́οιν toîn opallíoin	τῶν ὀπᾰλλῐ́ων tôn opallíōn
Dative	τῷ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ῳ tôi opallíōi	τοῖν ὀπᾰλλῐ́οιν toîn opallíoin	τοῖς ὀπᾰλλῐ́οις toîs opallíois
Accusative	τὸν ὀπᾰ́λλῐον tòn opállion	τὼ ὀπᾰλλῐ́ω tṑ opallíō	τοὺς ὀπᾰλλῐ́ους toùs opallíous
Vocative	ὀπᾰ́λλῐε opállie	ὀπᾰλλῐ́ω opallíō	ὀπᾰ́λλῐοι opállioi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: opalus

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὀπάλλιος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1089
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “opalus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 462
^ “opal”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.