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πῖλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῖλος πίλου

Structure: πιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. wool or hair wrought into felt
  2. anything made of felt, especially a felt skullcap
  3. a felt shoe
  4. felt cloth

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀμφὶ δὲ ποσσὶ πέδιλα βοὸσ ἶφι κταμένοιο ἄρμενα δήσασθαι, πίλοισ ἔντοσθε πυκάσσασ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 61:4)
  • ", ὡσ διαφαίνεσθαι τὸ σῶμα, καὶ ἢ κρηπὶσ Ἀττικὴ γυναικεία, τὸ πολυσχιδέσ, ἢ ἐμβὰσ Σικυωνία πίλοισ τοῖσ λευκοῖσ ἐπιπρέπουσα, καὶ ἀκόλουθοι πολλοὶ καὶ βιβλίον ἀεί, ταῦτα μὲν αὐτὸν χρὴ συντελεῖν τὰ δ’ ἄλλα καθ’ ὁδὸν ἤδη προϊὼν ὁρ́α καὶ ἄκουε. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:19)
  • αἱ δὲ ἅμαξαί εἰσιν αἱ μὲν ἐλάχισται τετράκυκλοι, αἱ δὲ ἑξάκυκλοι‧ αὗται δὲ πίλοισ περιπεφραγμέναι‧ εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ τετεχνασμέναι ὥσπερ οἰκήματα τὰ μὲν διπλᾶ, τὰ δὲ τριπλᾶ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xviii.5)
  • καθαρεύειν γὰρ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ περὶ τὴν τῶν θεῶν θεραπείαν ὄντασ, ὁμοίωσ ἐξυρημένουσ καὶ τὰσ στολὰσ τὰσ αὐτὰσ ἔχοντασ καὶ τὸν τοῦ σκήπτρου τύπον ἀροτροειδῆ καθεστῶτα, ὃν ἔχοντασ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ χρῆσθαι πίλοισ μακροῖσ ἐπὶ τοῦ πέρατοσ ὀμφαλὸν ἔχουσι καὶ περιεσπειραμένοισ ὄφεσιν, οὓσ καλοῦσιν ἀσπίδασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 3 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a felt shoe

  2. felt cloth

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