ἔτελις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐτελίς (etelís)

Etymology

Latin attilus (“kind of fish”) shows a general resemblance. Farther away are Latvian āte and Lithuanian atìs (“turbot”). Strömberg rather envisages derivation from ἔταλον (étalon, “yearling”), while DELG calls both suggestions improbable.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.te.lis/ → /ˈe.te.lis/ → /ˈe.te.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.te.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.te.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.te.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.te.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.te.lis/

Noun

ἔτελις • (ételis)

1. kind of fish, perhaps the gilthead

References

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