αὐλός

See also: αυλός, άυλος, ἄϋλος, and Αὖλος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *aulós, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlós, nominalization of *h₂ewlo- (“tube, hollow, channel”).^[1]

Cognates include Lithuanian aulas, avilỹs, Norwegian aul, Hittite (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Old Armenian օղ (ōł), and perhaps also Latin alvus, Old Church Slavonic улица (ulica, “small lane, narrow street”), and Old Armenian ուղի (ułi, “road, way, passage”). Semantically compare Sanskrit वेणु (veṇu, “reed, tube; flute, pipe”).

αὐλός • (aulós) m (genitive αὐλοῦ); second declension

(music) any pipe-shaped instrument: flute, clarinet, pipe
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.495:
  κοῦροι δ’ ὀρχηστῆρες ἐδίνεον, ἐν δ’ ἄρα τοῖσιν αὐλοὶ φόρμιγγές τε βοὴν ἔχον
  koûroi d’ orkhēstêres edíneon, en d’ ára toîsin auloì phórmingés te boḕn ékhon
  And young men were whirling in the dance, and in their midst flutes and lyres sounded continually.
hollow tube, pipe, groove, shaft
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.227:
  περόνη τέτυκτο αὐλοῖσιν διδύμοισι
  perónē tétukto auloîsin didúmoisi
  The buckle was furnished with two grooves
blowhole, duct
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 589b.19
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 697a.17
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 524a.10
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 507a.10
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Respiration 478b.8
stadium
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Alexandra 40
haulm (of grain)
cowbane (Cicuta virosa)
- 200 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers 10.3
razor shell
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.90d

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ αὐλός ho aulós	τὼ αὐλώ tṑ aulṓ	οἱ αὐλοί hoi auloí
Genitive	τοῦ αὐλοῦ toû auloû	τοῖν αὐλοῖν toîn auloîn	τῶν αὐλῶν tôn aulôn
Dative	τῷ αὐλῷ tôi aulôi	τοῖν αὐλοῖν toîn auloîn	τοῖς αὐλοῖς toîs auloîs
Accusative	τὸν αὐλόν tòn aulón	τὼ αὐλώ tṑ aulṓ	τοὺς αὐλούς toùs auloús
Vocative	αὐλέ aulé	αὐλώ aulṓ	αὐλοί auloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αὐλός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170

“αὐλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“αὐλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“αὐλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
αὐλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
αὐλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
αὐλός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“αὐλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G836 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- flute idem, page 330.
- groove idem, page 374.
- pipe idem, page 614.
- reed idem, page 684.
- spout idem, page 805.
- tap idem, page 855.
- tube idem, page 900.
- wind instrument idem, page 980.