ὀβολός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὀβελός (obelós, “spit, rod”). Plutarch tells us in Lysander 17 that, in early times, nails (ὀβελοί (obeloí)) were used as money, six of which made a handful (δραχμή (drakhmḗ)), and that the name was changed to ὀβολός (obolós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /o.bo.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.boˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.βoˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.voˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.voˈlos/
Noun
ὀβολός • (obolós) m (genitive ὀβολοῦ); second declension
- obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and a coin, equaling one sixth of a drachma
- a Corcyrean coin
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ὀβολός ho obolós |
τὼ ὀβολώ tṑ obolṓ |
οἱ ὀβολοί hoi oboloí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ὀβολοῦ toû oboloû |
τοῖν ὀβολοῖν toîn oboloîn |
τῶν ὀβολῶν tôn obolôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ὀβολῷ tôi obolôi |
τοῖν ὀβολοῖν toîn oboloîn |
τοῖς ὀβολοῖς toîs oboloîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ὀβολόν tòn obolón |
τὼ ὀβολώ tṑ obolṓ |
τοὺς ὀβολούς toùs oboloús | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὀβολέ obolé |
ὀβολώ obolṓ |
ὀβολοί oboloí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: obolus
- → French: obole
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Further reading
- “ὀβολός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὀβολός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὀβολός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- penny idem, page 603.
- http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-xiv