"Γελλώ" meaning in All languages combined

See Γελλώ on Wiktionary

Proper name [Ancient Greek]

IPA: /ɡel.lɔ̌ː/, /ʝelˈlo/, /ʝeˈlo/, /ɡel.lɔ̌ː/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ɡelˈlo/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ʝelˈlo/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ʝelˈlo/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ʝeˈlo/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Perhaps from Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, gallû, “Gallu”), a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul, as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death, from Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”). Etymology templates: {{bor|grc|akk|𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑||tr=ga-al-lu-ú, gallû}} Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), {{gbooks|cIiUL7dWqNIC|82|Gello|altpg=82-87}} 82-87, {{gbooks|fIp0RYIjazQC|58|Gello|altpg=58-59}} 58-59, {{gbooks|fIp0RYIjazQC|111|Gello}} 111, {{gbooks|rR9sLae9dEoC|182|Gello}} 182, {{der|grc|sux|𒋼𒇲||demon; constable|tr=<small>GAL₅.LÁ</small>, galla}} Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”) Head templates: {{grc-proper noun|Γελλοῦς|f|third}} Γελλώ • (Gellṓ) f (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|Γελλώ|Γελλοῦς|dial=att|form=F-sing}} Forms: Gellṓ [romanization], Γελλοῦς [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ἡ Γελλώ [nominative, singular], τῆς Γελλοῦς [genitive, singular], τῇ Γελλοῖ [dative, singular], τὴν Γελλώ [accusative, singular], Γελλοῖ [singular, vocative], Γέλλω [alternative, Aeolic]
  1. Gello (a kind of vampiress, demoness, or goblin supposed to carry off young children and cause infertility) Wikipedia link: Assyro-Babylonian religion, Gallu, Martin Litchfield West, Walter Burkert Related terms: Λάμια (Lámia)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "akk",
        "3": "𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑",
        "4": "",
        "tr": "ga-al-lu-ú, gallû"
      },
      "expansion": "Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cIiUL7dWqNIC",
        "2": "82",
        "3": "Gello",
        "altpg": "82-87"
      },
      "expansion": "82-87",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fIp0RYIjazQC",
        "2": "58",
        "3": "Gello",
        "altpg": "58-59"
      },
      "expansion": "58-59",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fIp0RYIjazQC",
        "2": "111",
        "3": "Gello"
      },
      "expansion": "111",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rR9sLae9dEoC",
        "2": "182",
        "3": "Gello"
      },
      "expansion": "182",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "sux",
        "3": "𒋼𒇲",
        "4": "",
        "5": "demon; constable",
        "tr": "<small>GAL₅.LÁ</small>, galla"
      },
      "expansion": "Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, gallû, “Gallu”), a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul, as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death, from Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gellṓ",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Γελλοῦς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ Γελλώ",
      "roman": "hē Gellṓ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς Γελλοῦς",
      "roman": "tês Gelloûs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ Γελλοῖ",
      "roman": "têi Gelloî",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν Γελλώ",
      "roman": "tḕn Gellṓ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Γελλοῖ",
      "roman": "Gelloî",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Γέλλω",
      "roman": "Géllō",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Aeolic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Γελλοῦς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "Γελλώ • (Gellṓ) f (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Γελλώ",
        "2": "Γελλοῦς",
        "dial": "att",
        "form": "F-sing"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Greek mythology",
          "orig": "grc:Greek mythology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Mythological creatures",
          "orig": "grc:Mythological creatures",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(She) more child-loving than Gello.",
          "ref": "630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 47",
          "roman": "Géllōs paidophilōtéra;",
          "text": "Γέλλως παιδοφιλωτέρα·"
        },
        {
          "text": "3rd century BCE, Erinna, SHell. 401.41"
        },
        {
          "text": "Cyranides 2.31.21"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "Cyranides 2.40.37",
          "roman": "tḕn Gellṑ tḕn pnígousan tà bréphē kaì tàs lekhoùs enokhloûsan",
          "text": "τὴν Γελλὼ τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν"
        },
        {
          "text": "c. 117 CE – 138 CE, Zenobius, The Proverbs of Zenobius 3.3"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Gello (a kind of vampiress, demoness, or goblin supposed to carry off young children and cause infertility)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Γελλώ-grc-name-pcqtt0Eq",
      "links": [
        [
          "Gello",
          "Gello"
        ],
        [
          "vampiress",
          "vampiress#English"
        ],
        [
          "demoness",
          "demoness#English"
        ],
        [
          "goblin",
          "goblin#English"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child#English"
        ],
        [
          "infertility",
          "infertility#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "roman": "Lámia",
          "word": "Λάμια"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Assyro-Babylonian religion",
        "Gallu",
        "Martin Litchfield West",
        "Walter Burkert"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡel.lɔ̌ː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝelˈlo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝeˈlo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡel.lɔ̌ː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡelˈlo/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝelˈlo/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝelˈlo/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝeˈlo/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Γελλώ"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "akk",
        "3": "𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑",
        "4": "",
        "tr": "ga-al-lu-ú, gallû"
      },
      "expansion": "Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cIiUL7dWqNIC",
        "2": "82",
        "3": "Gello",
        "altpg": "82-87"
      },
      "expansion": "82-87",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fIp0RYIjazQC",
        "2": "58",
        "3": "Gello",
        "altpg": "58-59"
      },
      "expansion": "58-59",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fIp0RYIjazQC",
        "2": "111",
        "3": "Gello"
      },
      "expansion": "111",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rR9sLae9dEoC",
        "2": "182",
        "3": "Gello"
      },
      "expansion": "182",
      "name": "gbooks"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "sux",
        "3": "𒋼𒇲",
        "4": "",
        "5": "demon; constable",
        "tr": "<small>GAL₅.LÁ</small>, galla"
      },
      "expansion": "Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps from Akkadian 𒂵𒀠𒇻𒌑 (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, gallû, “Gallu”), a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul, as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death, from Sumerian 𒋼𒇲 (GAL₅.LÁ, galla, “demon; constable”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gellṓ",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Γελλοῦς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ Γελλώ",
      "roman": "hē Gellṓ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς Γελλοῦς",
      "roman": "tês Gelloûs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ Γελλοῖ",
      "roman": "têi Gelloî",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν Γελλώ",
      "roman": "tḕn Gellṓ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Γελλοῖ",
      "roman": "Gelloî",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Γέλλω",
      "roman": "Géllō",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Aeolic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Γελλοῦς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "Γελλώ • (Gellṓ) f (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Γελλώ",
        "2": "Γελλοῦς",
        "dial": "att",
        "form": "F-sing"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "Lámia",
      "word": "Λάμια"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
        "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
        "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns",
        "Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the third declension",
        "Ancient Greek lemmas",
        "Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
        "Ancient Greek proper nouns",
        "Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Akkadian",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Akkadian",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Sumerian",
        "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
        "Ancient Greek third-declension proper nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of Ancient Greek quotations",
        "grc:Greek mythology",
        "grc:Mythological creatures"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(She) more child-loving than Gello.",
          "ref": "630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 47",
          "roman": "Géllōs paidophilōtéra;",
          "text": "Γέλλως παιδοφιλωτέρα·"
        },
        {
          "text": "3rd century BCE, Erinna, SHell. 401.41"
        },
        {
          "text": "Cyranides 2.31.21"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "Cyranides 2.40.37",
          "roman": "tḕn Gellṑ tḕn pnígousan tà bréphē kaì tàs lekhoùs enokhloûsan",
          "text": "τὴν Γελλὼ τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν"
        },
        {
          "text": "c. 117 CE – 138 CE, Zenobius, The Proverbs of Zenobius 3.3"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Gello (a kind of vampiress, demoness, or goblin supposed to carry off young children and cause infertility)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Gello",
          "Gello"
        ],
        [
          "vampiress",
          "vampiress#English"
        ],
        [
          "demoness",
          "demoness#English"
        ],
        [
          "goblin",
          "goblin#English"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child#English"
        ],
        [
          "infertility",
          "infertility#English"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Assyro-Babylonian religion",
        "Gallu",
        "Martin Litchfield West",
        "Walter Burkert"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡel.lɔ̌ː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝelˈlo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝeˈlo/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡel.lɔ̌ː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɡelˈlo/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝelˈlo/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝelˈlo/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʝeˈlo/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Γελλώ"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Γελλώ meaning in All languages combined (4.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.