πύλη

Of uncertain origin. Probably a Pre-Greek loan, like many other architectural terms.

πῠ́λη • (púlē) f (genitive πῠ́λης); first declension

1. A wing of gates.
2. A gate, door.

   Synonym: θύρα (thúra)

3. An entrance, orifice.

• Greek: πύλη (pýli)
• → Coptic: ⲡⲩⲗⲏ (pulē)
• → Latin: pylae

• “πύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πύλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πύλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πύλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πύλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4439 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • door idem, page 247.
  • gate idem, page 354.
  • orifice idem, page 579.
• “πύλη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

From Ancient Greek πύλη (púlē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li/

πύλη • (pýli) f (plural πύλες)

1. gate, portal
2. (computing) portal

• θύρα f (thýra)
• εξώπορτα f (exóporta)

• “πύλη”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998