ἐμπολή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A nominal formation from an unattested *ἐμπέλω (*empélō), from ἐν- (en-) + an element *πελ- (*pel-) which may be a blend of the roots underlying πέλομαι (pélomai, “to turn, move”) and πωλέω (pōléō, “to sell”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /em.po.lɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /em.poˈle̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /em.poˈli/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /em.poˈli/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /em.boˈli/

Noun

ἐμπολή • (empolḗ)

Declension

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Derived terms

ἀπεμπόλησις (apempólēsis)
ἀπεμπολητής (apempolētḗs)
ἐμπέλωρος (empélōros)
ἐμπολαῖος (empolaîos)
ἐμπολάω (empoláō)
ἐμπολεύς (empoleús)
ἐμπολέω (empoléō)
ἐμπόλημα (empólēma)
ἐξεμπολέω (exempoléō)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐμπολή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 418

“ἐμπολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἐμπολή in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
ἐμπολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἐμπολή in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
“ἐμπολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἐμπολή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐμπολή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 418

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