Αἴολος

See also: αἰόλος and Αίολος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αἰόλος (aiólos, “moving, swift”), of uncertain origin: possibly from Proto-Hellenic *walwólos, from Proto-Indo-European *welwel-, reduplicative form of the root *welH- (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǎi̯.o.los/ → /ˈɛ.o.los/ → /ˈe.o.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ǎi̯.o.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.o.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.o.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.o.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.o.los/

Proper noun

Αἴολος • (Aíolos) m (genitive Αἰόλου); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Aeolus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Αἴολος; τοῦ Αἰόλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Αἴολος ho Aíolos
Genitive	τοῦ Αἰόλου toû Aiólou
Dative	τῷ Αἰόλῳ tôi Aiólōi
Accusative	τὸν Αἴολον tòn Aíolon
Vocative	Αἴολε Aíole
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Αἰολεύς (Aioleús)
• Αἰολία (Aiolía)
• Αἰολίς (Aiolís)

Descendants

• Greek: Αίολος m (Aíolos)
• → Latin: Aeolus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “Αἴολος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Αἴολος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “Αἴολος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,000
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1140