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Ancient Greek
Etymology
It is not entirely clear how this word and πρύλις (prúlis, “Cretan weapon-dance”) are related. In view of the formal variant, the word is probably Pre-Greek. Unrelated to πρύτανις (prútanis, “ruler, lord”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pry.lé.es/ → /pryˈle.es/ → /priˈle.es/
Noun
πρῠλέες • (prulées) m pl (genitive πρῠλέων); third declension
- men-at-arms, soldiers
Declension
Further reading
- “πρυλέες”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πρυλέες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πρυλέες”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πρυλέες in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πρυλής in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πρυλέες”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1242