τῖλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. The comparisons with Armenian թրիք (tʻrikʻ, “dung, manure”), if from *tiHr-, Proto-Germanic *þainaz (“moist”) and Russian тина (tina, “scum, slime”) remain speculative, since there is no evidence of a root *tiH- or *tH-i- in this meaning. The same holds for the connection with τῖφος (tîphos, “pond, marsh”). The verb τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”) is not related, either.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tîː.los/ → /ˈti.los/ → /ˈti.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tîː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈti.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈti.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.los/

Noun

τῖλος • (tîlos) m (genitive τῑ́λου); second declension

1. thin stool, as in diarrhea

   Synonym: σπᾰτῑ́λη (spatī́lē)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ τῖλος; τοῦ τῑ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῖλος ho tîlos	τὼ τῑ́λω tṑ tī́lō	οἱ τῖλοι hoi tîloi
Genitive	τοῦ τῑ́λου toû tī́lou	τοῖν τῑ́λοιν toîn tī́loin	τῶν τῑ́λων tôn tī́lōn
Dative	τῷ τῑ́λῳ tôi tī́lōi	τοῖν τῑ́λοιν toîn tī́loin	τοῖς τῑ́λοις toîs tī́lois
Accusative	τὸν τῖλον tòn tîlon	τὼ τῑ́λω tṑ tī́lō	τοὺς τῑ́λους toùs tī́lous
Vocative	τῖλε tîle	τῑ́λω tī́lō	τῖλοι tîloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἱππότῑλος (hippótīlos)
• τῑ́λημᾰ (tī́lēma)
• τῑλᾰ́ω (tīláō)

 

Further reading

• “τῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τῖλος 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