πυλών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πύλη (púlē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.lɔ̌ːn/ → /pyˈlon/ → /piˈlon/

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

Noun

πぱいῠλών • (pulṓn) m (genitive πぱいῠλらむだῶνος); third declension

1. a gateway

Declension

Third declension of ὁ πぱいῠλών; τたうοおみくろんῦ πぱいῠλらむだῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πぱいῠλών ho pulṓn	τたうὼ πぱいῠλらむだῶνにゅーεいぷしろん tṑ pulône	οおみくろんἱ πぱいῠλらむだῶνες hoi pulônes
Genitive	τたうοおみくろんῦ πぱいῠλらむだῶνος toû pulônos	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー πぱいῠλώνοιν toîn pulṓnoin	τたうῶνにゅー πぱいῠλώνων tôn pulṓnōn
Dative	τたうῷ πぱいῠλらむだῶνにゅーῐ tôi pulôni	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー πぱいῠλώνοιν toîn pulṓnoin	τたうοおみくろんῖς πぱいῠλらむだῶσしぐまῐ / πぱいῠλらむだῶσしぐまῐνにゅー toîs pulôsi(n)
Accusative	τたうὸνにゅー πぱいῠλらむだῶνにゅーᾰ tòn pulôna	τたうὼ πぱいῠλらむだῶνにゅーεいぷしろん tṑ pulône	τたうοおみくろんὺς πぱいῠλらむだῶνにゅーᾰς toùs pulônas
Vocative	πぱいῠλών pulṓn	πぱいῠλらむだῶνにゅーεいぷしろん pulône	πぱいῠλらむだῶνες pulônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: пилон (pilon) (learned)
• → English: pylon (learned)
• → French: pylône (learned)
  • → Romanian: pilon
• → Russian: пилон (pilon) (learned)
• ⇒ Greek: πυλώνας (pylónas)

Further reading

• “πυλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πυλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πυλών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Noun

πυλών • (pylón) f

1. Genitive plural form of πύλη (pýli).