κήλων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾱ́λων (kā́lōn) — Doric

Etymology

Unknown. A secondary formation in -ων (-ōn). Vendryes proposed to start from κῆλον (kêlon, “arrow, projectile”) in the unattested sense of "penis", but this cannot be further substantiated.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/ → /ˈci.lon/ → /ˈci.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke̝.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.lon/

Noun

κήλων • (kḗlōn) m (genitive κήλωνος); third declension

1. swipe, swing-beam for drawing water
2. stallion, male ass

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κήλων; τοῦ κήλωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κήλων ho kḗlōn	τὼ κήλωνε tṑ kḗlōne	οἱ κήλωνες hoi kḗlōnes
Genitive	τοῦ κήλωνος toû kḗlōnos	τοῖν κηλώνοιν toîn kēlṓnoin	τῶν κηλώνων tôn kēlṓnōn
Dative	τῷ κήλωνῐ tôi kḗlōni	τοῖν κηλώνοιν toîn kēlṓnoin	τοῖς κήλωσῐ / κήλωσῐν toîs kḗlōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κήλωνᾰ tòn kḗlōna	τὼ κήλωνε tṑ kḗlōne	τοὺς κήλωνᾰς toùs kḗlōnas
Vocative	κήλων kḗlōn	κήλωνε kḗlōne	κήλωνες kḗlōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κηλώνειον (kēlṓneion)
• κηλωνεύω (kēlōneúō)
• κηλωνοστάσιον (kēlōnostásion)

 

Descendants

• → Classical Syriac: ܩܝܠܘܢܐ (qīlōnā)

Further reading

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