κύλινδρος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῠλίνδω (kulíndō, “I roll”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.lin.dros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.lin.dros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.lin.dros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.lin.dros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.lin.dros/

Noun

κῠ́λινδρος • (kúlindros) m (genitive κῠλίνδρου); second declension

round stone, tumbler, marble (child's toy)
roller, cylinder
roll of a book, volume

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠ́λινδρος; τοῦ κῠλίνδρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠ́λινδρος ho kúlindros	τὼ κῠλίνδρω tṑ kulíndrō	οἱ κῠ́λινδροι hoi kúlindroi
Genitive	τοῦ κῠλίνδρου toû kulíndrou	τοῖν κῠλίνδροιν toîn kulíndroin	τῶν κῠλίνδρων tôn kulíndrōn
Dative	τῷ κῠλίνδρῳ tôi kulíndrōi	τοῖν κῠλίνδροιν toîn kulíndroin	τοῖς κῠλίνδροις toîs kulíndrois
Accusative	τὸν κῠ́λινδρον tòn kúlindron	τὼ κῠλίνδρω tṑ kulíndrō	τοὺς κῠλίνδρους toùs kulíndrous
Vocative	κῠ́λινδρε kúlindre	κῠλίνδρω kulíndrō	κῠ́λινδροι kúlindroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: κύλινδρος (kýlindros)
→ Latin: cylindrus
- → Albanian: cilindër
- → Danish: cylinder
- → Dutch: cilinder, cylinder (superseded)
  - Afrikaans: silinder
  - → Caribbean Javanese: slènder
  - → Indonesian: silinder
- → Middle French: chilindre
  - French: cylindre
    - → Ottoman Turkish: سلندر (silinder), سیلندر (silindir)
      - Turkish: silindir
    - → Romanian: cilindru
  - → English: cylinder
    - → Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
    - → Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)
- → Galician: cilindro
- → German: Zylinder, Cylinder (obsolete)
  - → Russian: цилиндр (cilindr)
    - → Mongolian: цилиндр (cilindr)
    - → Uyghur: سىلىندىر (silindir)
  - → Ukrainian: циліндр (cylindr)
  - → Yiddish: צילינדער (tsilinder)
- → Italian: cilindro
- → Norwegian: sylinder
- → Portuguese: cilindro
- → Spanish: cilindro
- → Swedish: cylinder
→ Medieval Latin: calandrus
- → Middle French: calandre, calende
  - French: calandre
    - → English: calander
  - → Dutch: kalander, klander
    - Afrikaans: kalander

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κυλίνδω (> DER 1. κύλινδρος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 800

Further reading

“κύλινδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κύλινδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κύλινδρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κύλινδρος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).

Noun

κύλινδρος • (kýlindros) m (plural κύλινδροι)

(geometry) cylinder

Derived terms

κυλινδρόμυλος m (kylindrómylos, “roller mill”)
κυλινδροπίστονο n (kylindropístono, “cylinder and piston”)

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