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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“pass the night”), the same root of αὐλή (aulḗ, “courtyard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /âu̯.lis/ → /ˈa.βlis/ → /ˈa.vlis/
Noun
αὖλῐς • (aûlis) f (genitive αὔλῐδος); third declension
- tent or place for passing the night in, bivouac
- bird's roosting place
Inflection
Further reading
- “αὖλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὖλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “αὖλις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- αὖλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὖλις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- αὖλις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αὐλή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 169