ὠλένη

See also: ωλένη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₃l(e)n-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l-. Cognates include Sanskrit अरत्नि (aratní), Latin ulna, Old Armenian ողն (ołn), ուլն (uln), Albanian llërë and Old English elnboga (English elbow). This reconstruction however remains uncertain.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.lé.nɛː/ → /oˈle.ni/ → /oˈle.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔː.lé.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈle.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈle.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈle.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈle.ni/

Noun

ὠλένη • (ōlénē) f (genitive ὠλένης); first declension

1. (anatomy) elbow, lower arm

   Synonym: ἀγκών (ankṓn)

2. mat, mattress (=Latin torus)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὠλένη; τῆς ὠλένης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὠλένη hē ōlénē	τὼ ὠλένᾱ tṑ ōlénā	αἱ ὠλέναι hai ōlénai
Genitive	τῆς ὠλένης tês ōlénēs	τοῖν ὠλέναιν toîn ōlénain	τῶν ὠλενῶν tôn ōlenôn
Dative	τῇ ὠλένῃ têi ōlénēi	τοῖν ὠλέναιν toîn ōlénain	ταῖς ὠλέναις taîs ōlénais
Accusative	τὴν ὠλένην tḕn ōlénēn	τὼ ὠλένᾱ tṑ ōlénā	τᾱ̀ς ὠλένᾱς tā̀s ōlénās
Vocative	ὠλένη ōlénē	ὠλένᾱ ōlénā	ὠλέναι ōlénai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ωλένη (oléni)

Further reading

• “ὠλένη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὠλένη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὠλένη 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.
  • arm idem, page 40.
• 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