πίτυλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. The connection with πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) and πέτομαι (pétomai, “to dart, rush”) does not convince.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.ty.los/ → /ˈpi.ty.los/ → /ˈpi.ti.los/

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

Noun

πῐ́τῠλος • (pítulos) m (genitive πῐτῠ́λου); second declension

1. sweep, stroke of oars
2. shower, torrent
3. onslaught, attack, fit

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́τῠλος; τοῦ πῐτῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́τῠλος ho pítulos	τὼ πῐτῠ́λω tṑ pitúlō	οἱ πῐ́τῠλοι hoi pítuloi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐτῠ́λου toû pitúlou	τοῖν πῐτῠ́λοιν toîn pitúloin	τῶν πῐτῠ́λων tôn pitúlōn
Dative	τῷ πῐτῠ́λῳ tôi pitúlōi	τοῖν πῐτῠ́λοιν toîn pitúloin	τοῖς πῐτῠ́λοις toîs pitúlois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́τῠλον tòn pítulon	τὼ πῐτῠ́λω tṑ pitúlō	τοὺς πῐτῠ́λους toùs pitúlous
Vocative	πῐ́τῠλε pítule	πῐτῠ́λω pitúlō	πῐ́τῠλοι pítuloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πιτυλεύω (pituleúō)
• πιτυλίζω (pitulízō)

 

Further reading

• “πίτυλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίτυλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίτυλος 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