θαλλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“to bloom, be green”), whence also θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom”). Compare Welsh dail (“leaves”) and Old Irish duille (“foliage”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰal.lós/ → /θalˈlos/ → /θaˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰal.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰalˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θalˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θalˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θaˈlos/

Noun

θαλλός • (thallós) m (genitive θαλλοῦ); second declension

1. (botany) young shoot, young branch (especially of the olive)

   Synonyms: ἔρνος (érnos), ὄρπηξ (órpēx), τέρχνος (térkhnos)

2. (in the plural) palm leaves, which were plaited into baskets
3. gift given to a landlord by one whose bid for a lease was accepted

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θαλλός; τοῦ θαλλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θαλλός ho thallós	τὼ θαλλώ tṑ thallṓ	οἱ θαλλοί hoi thalloí
Genitive	τοῦ θαλλοῦ toû thalloû	τοῖν θαλλοῖν toîn thalloîn	τῶν θαλλῶν tôn thallôn
Dative	τῷ θαλλῷ tôi thallôi	τοῖν θαλλοῖν toîn thalloîn	τοῖς θαλλοῖς toîs thalloîs
Accusative	τὸν θαλλόν tòn thallón	τὼ θαλλώ tṑ thallṓ	τοὺς θαλλούς toùs thalloús
Vocative	θαλλέ thallé	θαλλώ thallṓ	θαλλοί thalloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θαλλία (thallía)
• θάλλινος (thállinos)
• θαλλίον (thallíon)
• θαλλοφαγέω (thallophagéō)
• θαλλοφορέω (thallophoréō)
• θαλλοφόρος (thallophóros)

 

Descendants

• → English: thallus
• → Italian: tallo

References

• “θαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “θαλλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• θαλλός 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