θύλακος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• θῦλαξ (thûlax), θυλλίς (thullís)

Etymology

Unexplained. Like σάκκος (sákkos, “sack”), probably foreign. The suffix -ακ- points to Pre-Greek origin. The word has also been compared with Lithuanian dundùlis (“puffed, big-bellied”), but this is only speculation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰy̌ː.la.kos/ → /ˈθy.la.kos/ → /ˈθi.la.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰy̌ː.la.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰy.la.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.la.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈθy.la.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈθi.la.kos/

Noun

θῡ́λᾰκος • (thū́lakos) m (genitive θῡλᾰ́κου); second declension

1. sack, bag, used especially to carry meal in
2. (zoology) sack in which the eggs of the tunny are enveloped
3. (in the plural) loose trousers of Persians and other Orientals
4. ball used for physical exercise

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ θῡ́λᾰκος; τοῦ θῡλᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ θῡ́λᾰκος ho thū́lakos	τὼ θῡλᾰ́κω tṑ thūlákō	οἱ θῡ́λᾰκοι hoi thū́lakoi
Genitive	τοῦ θῡλᾰ́κου toû thūlákou	τοῖν θῡλᾰ́κοιν toîn thūlákoin	τῶν θῡλᾰ́κων tôn thūlákōn
Dative	τῷ θῡλᾰ́κῳ tôi thūlákōi	τοῖν θῡλᾰ́κοιν toîn thūlákoin	τοῖς θῡλᾰ́κοις toîs thūlákois
Accusative	τὸν θῡ́λᾰκον tòn thū́lakon	τὼ θῡλᾰ́κω tṑ thūlákō	τοὺς θῡλᾰ́κους toùs thūlákous
Vocative	θῡ́λᾰκε thū́lake	θῡλᾰ́κω thūlákō	θῡ́λᾰκοι thū́lakoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• θυλάκη (thulákē)
• θυλακίζω (thulakízō)
• θυλάκιον (thulákion)
• θυλακίς (thulakís)
• θυλακίσκος (thulakískos)
• θυλακίτης (thulakítēs)
• θυλακόβολον (thulakóbolon)
• θυλακοειδής (thulakoeidḗs)
• θυλακόεις (thulakóeis)
• θυλακόομαι (thulakóomai)
• θυλακοτρώξ (thulakotrṓx)
• θυλακοφορέω (thulakophoréō)
• θυλακοφόρος (thulakophóros)
• θυλακώδης (thulakṓdēs)
• ὀλβοθύλακος (olbothúlakos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: θύλακος (thýlakos)
• Translingual: Thylacinus

Further reading

• “θύλακος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θύλακος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θύλακος 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