πέταλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “I open, spread out”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.ta.lon/ → /ˈpe.ta.lon/ → /ˈpe.ta.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.ta.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ta.lon/

Adjective

πέτᾰλον • (pétalon) n

1. inflection of πέταλος (pétalos):
   1. masculine accusative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular

Noun

πέτᾰλον • (pétalon) n (genitive πετᾰ́λου); second declension

1. leaf of plant, flower, or tree
2. thin plate of metal, leaf of metal
3. slice

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πέτᾰλον; τοῦ πετᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέτᾰλον tò pétalon	τὼ πετᾰ́λω tṑ petálō	τᾰ̀ πέτᾰλᾰ tà pétala
Genitive	τοῦ πετᾰ́λου toû petálou	τοῖν πετᾰ́λοιν toîn petáloin	τῶν πετᾰ́λων tôn petálōn
Dative	τῷ πετᾰ́λῳ tôi petálōi	τοῖν πετᾰ́λοιν toîn petáloin	τοῖς πετᾰ́λοις toîs petálois
Accusative	τὸ πέτᾰλον tò pétalon	τὼ πετᾰ́λω tṑ petálō	τᾰ̀ πέτᾰλᾰ tà pétala
Vocative	πέτᾰλον pétalon	πετᾰ́λω petálō	πέτᾰλᾰ pétala
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κᾰλλῐπέτᾰλον (kallipétalon)
• λεοντοπέτᾰλον (leontopétalon)

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: pètal
• → Dutch: petaal, petalum
• → English: petal
• → Esperanto: petalo
• → French: pétale
• → Galician: pétalo
• Greek: πέταλο (pétalo)
• → Ido: petalo
• → Irish: peiteal
• → Italian: petalo
• → Norman: pétale
• → Portuguese: pétala
• → Romanian: petală
• → Spanish: pétalo
• → Swahili: petali

Further reading

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