πυλίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πύλη (púlē, “one wing of a pair of double gates; entrance, orifice”) +‎ -ίς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.lís/ → /pyˈlis/ → /piˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pyˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pyˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pyˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈlis/

Noun

πῠλῐ́ς • (pulís) f (genitive πῠλῐ́δος); third declension

1. little gate, postern.
   1. (pathology) disease of the anus, probably multiple fistula.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πῠλῐ́ς; τῆς πῠλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠλῐ́ς hē pulís	τὼ πῠλῐ́δε tṑ pulíde	αἱ πῠλῐ́δες hai pulídes
Genitive	τῆς πῠλῐ́δος tês pulídos	τοῖν πῠλῐ́δοιν toîn pulídoin	τῶν πῠλῐ́δων tôn pulídōn
Dative	τῇ πῠλῐ́δῐ têi pulídi	τοῖν πῠλῐ́δοιν toîn pulídoin	ταῖς πῠλῐ́σῐ / πῠλῐ́σῐν taîs pulísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠλῐ́δᾰ tḕn pulída	τὼ πῠλῐ́δε tṑ pulíde	τᾱ̀ς πῠλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pulídas
Vocative	πῠλῐ́ς pulís	πῠλῐ́δε pulíde	πῠλῐ́δες pulídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: Dipylidium

References

• “πυλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πυλίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette