πόλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”): *kʷól-os > *pól-os.

Noun

πόλος • (pólos) m (genitive πόλου); second declension

1. pivot, hinge, axis, pole
2. axis of the celestial sphere
3. (astronomy) pole star
4. celestial sphere, vault of heaven
5. orbit of a star
6. center of the circular threshing floor
7. pole passing through the axletree of a carriage
8. concave sundial, on which the shadow was cast by the gnomon
9. headdress worn by goddesses
10. (architecture) dowel
11. windlass, capstan

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: πόλος (pólos)
• → Latin: polus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “πόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN

Greek

Noun

πόλος • (pólos) m (plural πόλοι)

1. pole (extreme of an axis)

   Βόρειος Πόλος (North Pole)

2. post (pole in a battery)

Declension