ἐμβόλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἔμβολος (émbolos) + -ῐον (-ĭon).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /em.bó.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /emˈbo.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /emˈbo.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /emˈbo.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /emˈbo.li.on/
Noun
ἐμβόλῐον • (embólĭon)
- discharged object, such as a missile or javelin
- interlude, episode
- small net used to fill a gap
- insertion, graft
- shoot for lading corn
Declension
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Descendants
- Greek: μπόλι (bóli)
Further reading
- “ἐμβόλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐμβόλιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- ἐμβόλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐμβόλιον in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- ἐμβόλιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011