βῶλος

See also: βώλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown; a candidate for Pre-Greek origin. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *bow-lo-, from an expressive root *bew- (“to swell, bubble; round object”) (compare Latin bulla (“bubble, knob”), Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object”)). Compare also Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “bulb”), βουνός (bounós, “hill, mound; clot”) and βουβών (boubṓn, “swelling; groin”), but according to Beekes these can hardly be related.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

βῶλος • (bôlos) f (genitive βώλου); second declension

  1. lump, clod of earth, turf
    Synonym: πηλός (pēlós)
  2. (poetic) land, soil
  3. lump of gold, nugget

Inflection
Second declension of ἡ βῶλος; τῆς βώλου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ βῶλος
hē bôlos		 τὼ βώλω
tṑ bṓlō		 αἱ βῶλοι
hai bôloi
Genitive τῆς βώλου
tês bṓlou		 τοῖν βώλοιν
toîn bṓloin		 τῶν βώλων
tôn bṓlōn
Dative τῇ βώλῳ
têi bṓlōi		 τοῖν βώλοιν
toîn bṓloin		 ταῖς βώλοις
taîs bṓlois
Accusative τὴν βῶλον
tḕn bôlon		 τὼ βώλω
tṑ bṓlō		 τᾱ̀ς βώλους
tā̀s bṓlous
Vocative βῶλε
bôle		 βώλω
bṓlō		 βῶλοι
bôloi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • βῶλαξ (bôlax)
  • βωλάριον (bōlárion)
  • βωληδόν (bōlēdón)
  • βώλινος (bṓlinos)
  • βωλίον (bōlíon)
  • βωλοειδής (bōloeidḗs)
  • βωλοκοπέω (bōlokopéō)
  • βωλοκόπος (bōlokópos)
  • βωλόκριθον (bōlókrithon)
  • βωλολογέω (bōlologéō)
  • βωλοποιέω (bōlopoiéō)
  • βωλόπυρος (bōlópuros)
  • βωλοστροφέω (bōlostrophéō)
  • βωλοτόμος (bōlotómos)
  • βωλοτρόφος (bōlotróphos)
  • βωλώδης (bōlṓdēs)
  • βώλωσις (bṓlōsis)
  • ἐρίβωλος (eríbōlos)

Descendants
  • Greek: βώλος (vólos), σβώλος (svólos)
  • → Late Latin: bōlus

Further reading
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βῶλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 251
  • “βῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “βῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “βῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • βῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • βῶλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • βῶλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
  • 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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.