πάσσαλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πάτταλος (páttalos) — Attic
• πάσσαξ (pássax)

Etymology

This word is usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”). However, Beekes finds this improbable and asserts that the suffix "-αλ-" is typical of Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pás.sa.los/ → /ˈpas.sa.los/ → /ˈpa.sa.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pás.sa.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sa.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sa.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sa.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.sa.los/

Noun

πάσσᾰλος • (pássalos) m (genitive πασσᾰ́λου); second declension

1. peg on which to hang clothes
2. (figuratively) membrum virile

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πάσσᾰλος; τοῦ πασσᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πάσσᾰλος ho pássalos	τὼ πασσᾰ́λω tṑ passálō	οἱ πάσσᾰλοι hoi pássaloi
Genitive	τοῦ πασσᾰ́λου toû passálou	τοῖν πασσᾰ́λοιν toîn passáloin	τῶν πασσᾰ́λων tôn passálōn
Dative	τῷ πασσᾰ́λῳ tôi passálōi	τοῖν πασσᾰ́λοιν toîn passáloin	τοῖς πασσᾰ́λοις toîs passálois
Accusative	τὸν πάσσᾰλον tòn pássalon	τὼ πασσᾰ́λω tṑ passálō	τοὺς πασσᾰ́λους toùs passálous
Vocative	πάσσᾰλε pássale	πασσᾰ́λω passálō	πάσσᾰλοι pássaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πασσαλεῖον (passaleîon)
• πασσαλευτός (passaleutós)
• πασσαλεύω (passaleúō)
• πασσάλιον (passálion)
• πασσαλίσκος (passalískos)
• πασσαλιστής (passalistḗs)
• πασσαλοκοπέω (passalokopéō)
• πασσαλοκοπία (passalokopía)
• πασσαλόω (passalóō)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πάσσαλος (pássalos)
• → Latin: pessulus

Further reading

• “πάσσαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πάσσαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πάσσαλος 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