πρυλέες

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• προυλέσι (proulési)

Etymology

It is not entirely clear how this word and πρύλις (prúlis, “Cretan weapon-dance”) are related. In view of the formal variant, the word is probably Pre-Greek. Unrelated to πρύτανις (prútanis, “ruler, lord”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pry.lé.es/ → /pryˈle.es/ → /priˈle.es/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pry.lé.es/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pryˈle.es/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pryˈle.es/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pryˈle.es/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /priˈle.es/

Noun

πρῠλέες • (prulées) m pl (genitive πρῠλέων); third declension

1. men-at-arms, soldiers

Declension

Third declension of οἱ πρῠλέες; τῶν πρῠλέων (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	οἱ πρῠλέες hoi prulées
Genitive	τῶν πρῠλέων tôn pruléōn
Dative	τοῖς πρῠλέσῐ / πρῠλέσῐν toîs prulési(n)
Accusative	τοὺς πρῠλέᾰς toùs pruléas
Vocative	πρῠλέες prulées
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πρυλέες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρυλέες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πρυλέες”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πρυλέες in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πρυλής in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πρυλέες”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1242