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) and ուլն (uln), Old English elnboga (English elbow). This reconstruction however remains uncertain.[1]

Pronunciation
 

Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) elbow, lower arm
  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

References
  1. Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23

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, 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
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