αὐλή

See also: αυλή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- (“pass the night”). Related to ἰαύω (iaúō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛ̌ː/ → /aˈβli/ → /aˈvli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /awˈle/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈβli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈvli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈvli/

Noun

αὐλή • (aulḗ) f (genitive αὐλῆς); first declension

1. open court, courtyard
2. quadrangle
3. hall, chamber
4. dwelling, house

Inflection

First declension of ἡ αὐλή; τῆς αὐλῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐλή hē aulḗ	τὼ αὐλᾱ́ tṑ aulā́	αἱ αὐλαί hai aulaí
Genitive	τῆς αὐλῆς tês aulês	τοῖν αὐλαῖν toîn aulaîn	τῶν αὐλῶν tôn aulôn
Dative	τῇ αὐλῇ têi aulêi	τοῖν αὐλαῖν toîn aulaîn	ταῖς αὐλαῖς taîs aulaîs
Accusative	τὴν αὐλήν tḕn aulḗn	τὼ αὐλᾱ́ tṑ aulā́	τᾱ̀ς αὐλᾱ́ς tā̀s aulā́s
Vocative	αὐλή aulḗ	αὐλᾱ́ aulā́	αὐλαί aulaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• αὐλικός (aulikós)

Descendants

• Greek: αυλή (avlí)
• → Latin: aula

Further reading

• αὐλή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αὐλή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αὐλή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αὐλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• αὐλή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αὐλή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2018)
• “G833”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• αὐλή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bird-cage idem, page 79.
  • cage idem, page 108.
  • coop idem, page 173.
  • court idem, page 179.
  • courtyard idem, page 179.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • hall idem, page 381.
  • yard idem, page 995.