βαύκαλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably of Afroasiatic origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bǎu̯.ka.lis/ → /ˈβaɸ.ka.lis/ → /ˈvaf.ka.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bǎu̯.ka.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʍ.ka.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβaɸ.ka.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvaf.ka.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvaf.ka.lis/

Noun

βαύκᾰλῐς • (baúkalis) f (genitive βαυκάλῐδος); third declension

1. vessel for cooling wine or water

Declension

Third declension of ἡ βαύκᾰλῐς; τῆς βαυκᾰ́λῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βαύκᾰλῐς hē baúkalis	τὼ βαυκᾰ́λῐδε tṑ baukálide	αἱ βαυκᾰ́λῐδες hai baukálides
Genitive	τῆς βαυκᾰ́λῐδος tês baukálidos	τοῖν βαυκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn baukalídoin	τῶν βαυκᾰλῐ́δων tôn baukalídōn
Dative	τῇ βαυκᾰ́λῐδῐ têi baukálidi	τοῖν βαυκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn baukalídoin	ταῖς βαυκᾰ́λῐσῐ / βαυκᾰ́λῐσῐν taîs baukálisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βαυκᾰ́λῐδᾰ tḕn baukálida	τὼ βαυκᾰ́λῐδε tṑ baukálide	τᾱ̀ς βαυκᾰ́λῐδᾰς tā̀s baukálidas
Vocative	βαύκᾰλῐς baúkalis	βαυκᾰ́λῐδε baukálide	βαυκᾰ́λῐδες baukálides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Arabic: بُوقال (būqāl)
  • Maltese: buqar
• →? Bulgarian: бъ́къл (bǎ́kǎl)
• → Late Latin: baucālis
  • Italian: boccale
    • → Middle Dutch: bocael
      • Dutch: bokaal
    • → French: bocal
      • → English: bocal
    • → German: Pokal (see there for further descendants)
    • → Greek: μπουκάλι (boukáli)
    • → Hungarian: bokály
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پوتقال
      • Turkish: potkal
  • Sicilian: bucali

Further reading

• βαύκαλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαύκαλις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “βαύκαλις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “βαύκαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “βαύκαλις”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 303