βῶλος

See also: βώλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βόλος (bólos)

Etymology

Unknown; a candidate for Pre-Greek origin. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *bow-lo-, from an expressive root *bew- (“to swell, bubble; round object”) (compare Latin bulla (“bubble, knob”), Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object”)). Compare also Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “bulb”), βουνός (bounós, “hill, mound; clot”) and βουβών (boubṓn, “swelling; groin”), but according to Beekes these can hardly be related.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̂ː.los/ → /ˈβo.los/ → /ˈvo.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bɔ̂ː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβo.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.los/

Noun

βῶλος • (bôlos) f (genitive βώλου); second declension

1. lump, clod of earth, turf

   Synonym: πηλός (pēlós)

2. (poetic) land, soil
3. lump of gold, nugget

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ βῶλος; τῆς βώλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βῶλος hē bôlos	τὼ βώλω tṑ bṓlō	αἱ βῶλοι hai bôloi
Genitive	τῆς βώλου tês bṓlou	τοῖν βώλοιν toîn bṓloin	τῶν βώλων tôn bṓlōn
Dative	τῇ βώλῳ têi bṓlōi	τοῖν βώλοιν toîn bṓloin	ταῖς βώλοις taîs bṓlois
Accusative	τὴν βῶλον tḕn bôlon	τὼ βώλω tṑ bṓlō	τᾱ̀ς βώλους tā̀s bṓlous
Vocative	βῶλε bôle	βώλω bṓlō	βῶλοι bôloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βῶλαξ (bôlax)
• βωλάριον (bōlárion)
• βωληδόν (bōlēdón)
• βώλινος (bṓlinos)
• βωλίον (bōlíon)
• βωλοειδής (bōloeidḗs)
• βωλοκοπέω (bōlokopéō)
• βωλοκόπος (bōlokópos)
• βωλόκριθον (bōlókrithon)
• βωλολογέω (bōlologéō)
• βωλοποιέω (bōlopoiéō)
• βωλόπυρος (bōlópuros)
• βωλοστροφέω (bōlostrophéō)
• βωλοτόμος (bōlotómos)
• βωλοτρόφος (bōlotróphos)
• βωλώδης (bōlṓdēs)
• βώλωσις (bṓlōsis)
• ἐρίβωλος (eríbōlos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: βώλος (vólos), σβώλος (svólos)
• → Late Latin: bōlus
  • → English: bolus; → English: bole
  • → Old French: bol
    • Middle French: bol
      • French: bol

Further reading

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βῶλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 251
• “βῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “βῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• βῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βῶλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• βῶλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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