"πάσσαλος" meaning in Ancient Greek

See πάσσαλος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pás.sa.los/, /ˈpas.sa.los/, /ˈpa.sa.los/, /pás.sa.los/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈpas.sa.los/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈpas.sa.los/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈpas.sa.los/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈpa.sa.los/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: This word is usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”). However, Beekes finds this improbable and asserts that the suffix "-αλ-" is typical of Pre-Greek. Etymology templates: {{root|grc|ine-pro|*peh₂ǵ-}}, {{der|grc|ine-pro|*peh₂ǵ-||to attach}} Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”), {{der|grc|qsb-grc|-}} Pre-Greek Head templates: {{grc-noun|πάσσᾰλος|πασσᾰ́λου|m|second}} πάσσᾰλος • (pássălos) m (genitive πασσᾰ́λου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|πάσσᾰλος|ου|form=M}} Forms: πάσσᾰλος [canonical], pássălos [romanization], πασσᾰ́λου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ πάσσᾰλος [nominative, singular], πασσᾰ́λω [dual, nominative], οἱ πάσσᾰλοι [nominative, plural], τοῦ πασσᾰ́λου [genitive, singular], πασσᾰ́λοιν [dual, genitive], πασσᾰ́λων [genitive, plural], τῷ πασσᾰ́λῳ [dative, singular], πασσᾰ́λοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς πασσᾰ́λοις [dative, plural], τὸν πάσσᾰλον [accusative, singular], πασσᾰ́λω [accusative, dual], τοὺς πασσᾰ́λους [accusative, plural], πάσσᾰλε [singular, vocative], πασσᾰ́λω [dual, vocative], πάσσᾰλοι [plural, vocative], πάτταλος [alternative, Attic], πάσσαξ [alternative]
  1. peg on which to hang clothes
    Sense id: en-πάσσαλος-grc-noun-kAEaboqU Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 88 12
  2. (figuratively) membrum virile Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-πάσσαλος-grc-noun-PYifyq5a Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension: 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: πασσαλεῖον (passaleîon), πασσαλευτός (passaleutós), πασσαλεύω (passaleúō), πασσάλιον (passálion), πασσαλίσκος (passalískos), πασσαλιστής (passalistḗs), πασσαλοκοπέω (passalokopéō), πασσαλοκοπία (passalokopía), πασσαλόω (passalóō)
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passaleîon",
      "word": "πασσαλεῖον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passaleutós",
      "word": "πασσαλευτός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passaleúō",
      "word": "πασσαλεύω"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passálion",
      "word": "πασσάλιον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passalískos",
      "word": "πασσαλίσκος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passalistḗs",
      "word": "πασσαλιστής"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passalokopéō",
      "word": "πασσαλοκοπέω"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passalokopía",
      "word": "πασσαλοκοπία"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "passalóō",
      "word": "πασσαλόω"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "πάσσαλος"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: πάσσαλος (pássalos)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: πάσσαλος (pássalos)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "pessulus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: pessulus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: pessulus"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
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      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "This word is usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”). However, Beekes finds this improbable and asserts that the suffix \"-αλ-\" is typical of Pre-Greek.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "πάσσᾰλος",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pássălos",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λου",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-2",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Second declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ πάσσᾰλος",
      "roman": "ho pássălos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λω",
      "roman": "passắlō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ πάσσᾰλοι",
      "roman": "hoi pássăloi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ πασσᾰ́λου",
      "roman": "toû passắlou",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λοιν",
      "roman": "passắloin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λων",
      "roman": "passắlōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ πασσᾰ́λῳ",
      "roman": "tôi passắlōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λοιν",
      "roman": "passắloin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς πασσᾰ́λοις",
      "roman": "toîs passắlois",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν πάσσᾰλον",
      "roman": "tòn pássălon",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λω",
      "roman": "passắlō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς πασσᾰ́λους",
      "roman": "toùs passắlous",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάσσᾰλε",
      "roman": "pássăle",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λω",
      "roman": "passắlō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάσσᾰλοι",
      "roman": "pássăloi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάτταλος",
      "roman": "páttalos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Attic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάσσαξ",
      "roman": "pássax",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "2": "πασσᾰ́λου",
        "3": "m",
        "4": "second"
      },
      "expansion": "πάσσᾰλος • (pássălos) m (genitive πασσᾰ́λου); second declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "πάσσᾰλος",
        "2": "ου",
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      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "peg on which to hang clothes"
      ],
      "id": "en-πάσσαλος-grc-noun-kAEaboqU",
      "links": [
        [
          "peg",
          "peg"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 78",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "membrum virile"
      ],
      "id": "en-πάσσαλος-grc-noun-PYifyq5a",
      "links": [
        [
          "membrum virile",
          "membrum virile"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) membrum virile"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pás.sa.los/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpa.sa.los/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pás.sa.los/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpa.sa.los/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "πάσσαλος"
}
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    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek second-declension nouns",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂ǵ-",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "passaleîon",
      "word": "πασσαλεῖον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passaleutós",
      "word": "πασσαλευτός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passaleúō",
      "word": "πασσαλεύω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passálion",
      "word": "πασσάλιον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passalískos",
      "word": "πασσαλίσκος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passalistḗs",
      "word": "πασσαλιστής"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passalokopéō",
      "word": "πασσαλοκοπέω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passalokopía",
      "word": "πασσαλοκοπία"
    },
    {
      "roman": "passalóō",
      "word": "πασσαλόω"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "πάσσαλος"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: πάσσαλος (pássalos)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: πάσσαλος (pássalos)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "pessulus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: pessulus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: pessulus"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "ine-pro",
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      },
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      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ine-pro",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "to attach"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "-"
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      "expansion": "Pre-Greek",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "This word is usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach”). However, Beekes finds this improbable and asserts that the suffix \"-αλ-\" is typical of Pre-Greek.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "πάσσᾰλος",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pássălos",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λου",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-2",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Second declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ πάσσᾰλος",
      "roman": "ho pássălos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λω",
      "roman": "passắlō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ πάσσᾰλοι",
      "roman": "hoi pássăloi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ πασσᾰ́λου",
      "roman": "toû passắlou",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λοιν",
      "roman": "passắloin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λων",
      "roman": "passắlōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ πασσᾰ́λῳ",
      "roman": "tôi passắlōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λοιν",
      "roman": "passắloin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς πασσᾰ́λοις",
      "roman": "toîs passắlois",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν πάσσᾰλον",
      "roman": "tòn pássălon",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λω",
      "roman": "passắlō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς πασσᾰ́λους",
      "roman": "toùs passắlous",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάσσᾰλε",
      "roman": "pássăle",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πασσᾰ́λω",
      "roman": "passắlō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάσσᾰλοι",
      "roman": "pássăloi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάτταλος",
      "roman": "páttalos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Attic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πάσσαξ",
      "roman": "pássax",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "πάσσᾰλος",
        "2": "πασσᾰ́λου",
        "3": "m",
        "4": "second"
      },
      "expansion": "πάσσᾰλος • (pássălos) m (genitive πασσᾰ́λου); second declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "πάσσᾰλος",
        "2": "ου",
        "form": "M"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "peg on which to hang clothes"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peg",
          "peg"
        ],
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "membrum virile"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "membrum virile",
          "membrum virile"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) membrum virile"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pás.sa.los/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpa.sa.los/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pás.sa.los/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpas.sa.los/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpa.sa.los/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "πάσσαλος"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-21 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.