βάταλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βαδᾶς (badâs)
• βατᾶς (batâs)
• βάτταλος (báttalos)

Etymology

There has been an attempt to link this word with βατέω (batéō, “to mount”) but the presence of the alternative forms dismisses this theory. Furnée correctly connects the word with σπάταλος (spátalos, “lewd, lascivious”), which indicates a common origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bǎː.ta.los/ → /ˈβa.ta.los/ → /ˈva.ta.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bǎː.ta.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ta.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβa.ta.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ta.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ta.los/

Noun

βάταλος • (bátalos) m (genitive βατάλου); second declension

1. (anatomy) anus
2. catamite, lewd man

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βάταλος; τοῦ βατάλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βάταλος ho bátalos	τὼ βατάλω tṑ batálō	οἱ βάταλοι hoi bátaloi
Genitive	τοῦ βατάλου toû batálou	τοῖν βατάλοιν toîn batáloin	τῶν βατάλων tôn batálōn
Dative	τῷ βατάλῳ tôi batálōi	τοῖν βατάλοιν toîn batáloin	τοῖς βατάλοις toîs batálois
Accusative	τὸν βάταλον tòn bátalon	τὼ βατάλω tṑ batálō	τοὺς βατάλους toùs batálous
Vocative	βάταλε bátale	βατάλω batálō	βάταλοι bátaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βαταλίζω (batalízō)

Further reading

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