πύελος

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πύαλος (púalos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek but it has also been compared with πλύνω (plúnō, “to wash, clean”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pý.e.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpy.e.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.e.los/

Noun

πῠ́ελος • (púelos) f (genitive πῠέλου); second declension

trough for feeding animals
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.552–553:
  παπτήνασα δὲ χῆνας ἐνὶ μεγάροισ’ ἐνόησα
  πυρὸν ἐρεπτομένους παρὰ πύελον, ἧχι πάρος περ.
  paptḗnasa dè khênas enì megárois’ enóēsa
  puròn ereptoménous parà púelon, hêkhi páros per.
  Scanning around, I saw geese in the halls,
  feeding on wheat besides a through, where always before.
1. bathtub
  - 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1060:
    τὰς πυέλους φησὶν καταλήψεσθʼ ἐν βαλανείῳ.
    tàs puélous phēsìn katalḗpsesthʼ en balaneíōi.
    They say that they will seize the bathtubs in your bathroom.
2. vat, kitchen boiler
3. coffin
4. (anatomy) infundibulum

Declension

Second declension of ἡ πῠ́ελος; τῆς πῠέλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠ́ελος hē púelos	τὼ πῠέλω tṑ puélō	αἱ πῠ́ελοι hai púeloi
Genitive	τῆς πῠέλου tês puélou	τοῖν πῠέλοιν toîn puéloin	τῶν πῠέλων tôn puélōn
Dative	τῇ πῠέλῳ têi puélōi	τοῖν πῠέλοιν toîn puéloin	ταῖς πῠέλοις taîs puélois
Accusative	τὴν πῠ́ελον tḕn púelon	τὼ πῠέλω tṑ puélō	τᾱ̀ς πῠέλους tā̀s puélous
Vocative	πῠ́ελε púele	πῠέλω puélō	πῠ́ελοι púeloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

λουτήρ (loutḗr)
ἀσάμινθος (asáminthos)

Derived terms

πυέλιον (puélion)
πυελίς (puelís)
πυελώδης (puelṓdēs)

Further reading

“πύελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πύελος 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

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