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 (phlḗnaphos), φλῠ́ᾱρος (phlúāros)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́θλος; τοῦ ῠ̔́θλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔́θλος ho húthlos	τὼ ῠ̔́θλω tṑ húthlō	οἱ ῠ̔́θλοι hoi húthloi
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́θλου toû húthlou	τοῖν ῠ̔́θλοιν toîn húthloin	τῶν ῠ̔́θλων tôn húthlōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́θλῳ tôi húthlōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́θλοιν toîn húthloin	τοῖς ῠ̔́θλοις toîs húthlois
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́θλον tòn húthlon	τὼ ῠ̔́θλω tṑ húthlō	τοὺς ῠ̔́θλους toùs húthlous
Vocative	ῠ̔́θλε húthle	ῠ̔́θλω húthlō	ῠ̔́θλοι húthloi
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