πυλεών

Ancient Greek

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πῠλεών • (puleṓn) m (genitive πῠλεῶνος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ πῠλεών; τοῦ πῠλεῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠλεών ho puleṓn	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ puleône	οἱ πῠλεῶνες hoi puleônes
Genitive	τοῦ πῠλεῶνος toû puleônos	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn puleṓnoin	τῶν πῠλεώνων tôn puleṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠλεῶνῐ tôi puleôni	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn puleṓnoin	τοῖς πῠλεῶσῐ / πῠλεῶσῐν toîs puleôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῠλεῶνᾰ tòn puleôna	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ puleône	τοὺς πῠλεῶνᾰς toùs puleônas
Vocative	πῠλεών puleṓn	πῠλεῶνε puleône	πῠλεῶνες puleônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

From Proto-Indo-European *pulu-. Cognates include Sanskrit पुलक (pulaka), Irish ulcha. However, Beekes connects the word with πύλιγξ (púlinx, “curls”) and suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

πῠλεών • (puleṓn) m (genitive πῠλεῶνος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ πῠλεών; τοῦ πῠλεῶνος (Laconian)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῠλεών ho puleṓn	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ puleône	τοὶ πῠλεῶνες toì puleônes
Genitive	τοῦ πῠλεῶνος toû puleônos	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn puleṓnoin	τῶν πῠλεώνων tôn puleṓnōn
Dative	τῷ πῠλεῶνῐ tôi puleôni	τοῖν πῠλεώνοιν toîn puleṓnoin	τοῖς πῠλεῶσῐ / πῠλεῶσῐν toîs puleôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πῠλεῶνᾰ tòn puleôna	τὼ πῠλεῶνε tṑ puleône	τὼς πῠλεῶνᾰς tṑs puleônas
Vocative	πῠλεών puleṓn	πῠλεῶνε puleône	πῠλεῶνες puleônes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

“πυλεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πυλεών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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