ὑδροκήλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὑγροκήλη (hugrokḗlē)

Etymology

From ὑδρο- (hudro-, “water”) +‎ κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour, hernia”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.dro.kɛ̌ː.lɛː/ → /y.ðroˈci.li/ → /i.ðroˈci.li/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.dro.kɛ̌ː.lɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)y.droˈke̝.le̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /y.ðroˈci.li/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /y.ðroˈci.li/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.ðroˈci.li/

Noun

ὑδροκήλη • (hudrokḗlē) f (genitive ὑδροκήλης); first declension

1. (pathology) hydrocele, water in the scrotum

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὑδροκήλη; τῆς ὑδροκήλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὑδροκήλη hē hudrokḗlē	τὼ ὑδροκήλᾱ tṑ hudrokḗlā	αἱ ὑδροκῆλαι hai hudrokêlai
Genitive	τῆς ὑδροκήλης tês hudrokḗlēs	τοῖν ὑδροκήλαιν toîn hudrokḗlain	τῶν ὑδροκηλῶν tôn hudrokēlôn
Dative	τῇ ὑδροκήλῃ têi hudrokḗlēi	τοῖν ὑδροκήλαιν toîn hudrokḗlain	ταῖς ὑδροκήλαις taîs hudrokḗlais
Accusative	τὴν ὑδροκήλην tḕn hudrokḗlēn	τὼ ὑδροκήλᾱ tṑ hudrokḗlā	τᾱ̀ς ὑδροκήλᾱς tā̀s hudrokḗlās
Vocative	ὑδροκήλη hudrokḗlē	ὑδροκήλᾱ hudrokḗlā	ὑδροκῆλαι hudrokêlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: hydrocele

Further reading

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