πῖλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pilos. Cognates include Latin pilus (“a hair”), pila (“a ball”), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), and Old English felt (English felt).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pîː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.los/
Noun
πῖλος • (pîlos) m (genitive πῑ́λου); second declension
- wool or hair wrought into felt
- anything made of felt, especially a felt skullcap
- a felt shoe
- Cratinus, Soft Ones 5
- felt cloth
- a cottony ball formed on some trees
- Theophrastus, On Plants 3.7,4
- Theophrastus, On Plants 4.8,7
- translation for Latin pilus, as in primus pilus
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πῖλος ho pîlos |
τὼ πῑ́λω tṑ pī́lō |
οἱ πῖλοι hoi pîloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πῑ́λου toû pī́lou |
τοῖν πῑ́λοιν toîn pī́loin |
τῶν πῑ́λων tôn pī́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πῑ́λῳ tôi pī́lōi |
τοῖν πῑ́λοιν toîn pī́loin |
τοῖς πῑ́λοις toîs pī́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πῖλον tòn pîlon |
τὼ πῑ́λω tṑ pī́lō |
τοὺς πῑ́λους toùs pī́lous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πῖλε pîle |
πῑ́λω pī́lō |
πῖλοι pîloi | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- (felt skullcap): πέτασος (pétasos)
Derived terms
- πιλέω (piléō)
Descendants
- Greek: πίλος (pílos)
Further reading
- πῖλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πῖλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πῖλος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πῖλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πῖλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- felt idem, page 315.
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