σφέλας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée concludes from the possible connection with σφαλλός (sphallós, “round block of wood”) that the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

σφέλᾰς • (sphélas) n (genitive σφέλᾰος); third declension

  1. footstool
    Synonyms: θρῆνυς (thrênus), ὑποπόδιον (hupopódion)
  2. pedestal of a statue
  3. hollow block of wood, for putting anything into

Declension
Third declension of τὸ σφέλᾰς; τοῦ σφέλᾰος (contracted, Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ σφέλᾰς
tò sphélas		 τὼ σφέλᾰε
tṑ sphélae		 τᾰ̀ σφέλᾱ
tà sphélā
Genitive τοῦ σφέλᾰος
toû sphélaos		 τοῖν σφελᾰ́οιν
toîn spheláoin		 τῶν σφελᾰ́ων
tôn spheláōn
Dative τῷ σφέλᾰῐ̈
tôi sphélaï		 τοῖν σφελᾰ́οιν
toîn spheláoin		 τοῖς σφέλᾰσῐ / σφέλᾰσῐν
toîs sphélasi(n)
Accusative τὸ σφέλᾰς
tò sphélas		 τὼ σφέλᾰε
tṑ sphélae		 τᾰ̀ σφέλᾱ
tà sphélā
Vocative σφέλᾰς
sphélas		 σφέλᾰε
sphélae		 σφέλᾱ
sphélā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • ἐπισφελίτης (episphelítēs)
  • σφελίσκον (sphelískon)

Further reading
  • “σφέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “σφέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “σφέλας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • σφέλας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • σφέλας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • 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
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