ὕδραυλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὕδραυλος (húdraulos)

Etymology

From ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) +‎ αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hý.drau̯.lis/ → /ˈy.ðra.βlis/ → /ˈi.ðra.vlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.drau̯.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.draw.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðra.βlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.ðra.vlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ðra.vlis/

Noun

ὕδραυλῐς • (húdraulis) f (genitive ὑδραύλεως); third declension

1. water organ, invented by Ctesibius

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ὕδραυλῐς; τῆς ὑδραύλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὕδραυλῐς hē húdraulis	τὼ ὑδραύλει tṑ hudraúlei	αἱ ὑδραύλεις hai hudraúleis
Genitive	τῆς ὑδραύλεως tês hudraúleōs	τοῖν ὑδραυλέοιν toîn hudrauléoin	τῶν ὑδραύλεων tôn hudraúleōn
Dative	τῇ ὑδραύλει têi hudraúlei	τοῖν ὑδραυλέοιν toîn hudrauléoin	ταῖς ὑδραύλεσῐ / ὑδραύλεσῐν taîs hudraúlesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ὕδραυλῐν tḕn húdraulin	τὼ ὑδραύλει tṑ hudraúlei	τᾱ̀ς ὑδραύλεις tā̀s hudraúleis
Vocative	ὕδραυλῐ húdrauli	ὑδραύλει hudraúlei	ὑδραύλεις hudraúleis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑδραύλης (hudraúlēs)
• ὑδραυλικόν (hudraulikón)

 

References

• “ὕδραυλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕδραυλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette