αἰγωλιός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• αἰγώλιος (aigṓlios), αἰτώλιος (aitṓlios)

Etymology

The etymology is still unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ai̯.ɡɔː.li.ós/ → /ɛ.ɣo.liˈos/ → /e.ɣo.liˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ai̯.ɡɔː.li.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɛ.ɡo.liˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɛ.ɣo.liˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ɣo.liˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ɣo.liˈos/

Noun

αἰγωλῐός • (aigōliós) m (genitive αἰγωλῐοῦ); second declension

1. A small kind of owl

Declension

Second declension of ὁ αἰγωλῐός; τοῦ αἰγωλῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αἰγωλῐός ho aigōliós	τὼ αἰγωλῐώ tṑ aigōliṓ	οἱ αἰγωλῐοί hoi aigōlioí
Genitive	τοῦ αἰγωλῐοῦ toû aigōlioû	τοῖν αἰγωλῐοῖν toîn aigōlioîn	τῶν αἰγωλῐῶν tôn aigōliôn
Dative	τῷ αἰγωλῐῷ tôi aigōliôi	τοῖν αἰγωλῐοῖν toîn aigōlioîn	τοῖς αἰγωλῐοῖς toîs aigōlioîs
Accusative	τὸν αἰγωλῐόν tòn aigōlión	τὼ αἰγωλῐώ tṑ aigōliṓ	τοὺς αἰγωλῐούς toùs aigōlioús
Vocative	αἰγωλῐέ aigōlié	αἰγωλῐώ aigōliṓ	αἰγωλῐοί aigōlioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: aegolios
• Translingual: Aegolius

Further reading

• “αἰγωλιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἰγωλιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αἰγωλιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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