δείλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”), thus related to δῆλος (dêlos, “clear, visible”) and cognate to Latin dies

Pronunciation
 

Noun

δείλη • (deílē) f (genitive δείλης); first declension

  1. afternoon

Inflection
First declension of ἡ δείλη; τῆς δείλης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ δείλη
hē deílē
Genitive τῆς δείλης
tês deílēs
Dative τῇ δείλῃ
têi deílēi
Accusative τὴν δείλην
tḕn deílēn
Vocative δείλη
deílē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References
  • “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “δείλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “δείλη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • δείλη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • δείλη - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
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