ὕθλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. The word may contain the suffix "-θλο-", as in ἄεθλος (áethlos), but there is no good explanation for initial "ὑ-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.tʰlos/ → /ˈy.θlos/ → /ˈi.θlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.tʰlos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.tʰlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.θlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.θlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.θlos/

Noun

ὕθλος • (húthlos) m (genitive ὕθλου); second declension

1. idle talk, nonsense, prank

   Synonyms: φλήνᾰφος (phlḗnăphos), φλῠ́ᾱρος (phlŭ́āros)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́θλος; τοῦ ῠ̔́θλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔́θλος ho hŭ́thlos	τὼ ῠ̔́θλω tṑ hŭ́thlō	οἱ ῠ̔́θλοι hoi hŭ́thloi
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́θλου toû hŭ́thlou	τοῖν ῠ̔́θλοιν toîn hŭ́thloin	τῶν ῠ̔́θλων tôn hŭ́thlōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́θλῳ tôi hŭ́thlōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́θλοιν toîn hŭ́thloin	τοῖς ῠ̔́θλοις toîs hŭ́thlois
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́θλον tòn hŭ́thlon	τὼ ῠ̔́θλω tṑ hŭ́thlō	τοὺς ῠ̔́θλους toùs hŭ́thlous
Vocative	ῠ̔́θλε hŭ́thle	ῠ̔́θλω hŭ́thlō	ῠ̔́θλοι hŭ́thloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑθλέω (huthléō)
• ὑθλορρήμων (huthlorrhḗmōn)

Further reading

• “ὕθλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕθλος 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