Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ψίλον ‎(psílon) Doric

Noun

πτῑ́λον • ‎(ptī́lon) n ‎(genitive πτίλου); second declension

1. feather, especially a down feather
   • 400 BCE – 200 BCE, Clytus, Collected Works 1
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 12.4
   • 450 BCE – 350 BCE, Plato Comicus, Collected Works 97
   • 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 5
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 21.28.12
   1. the down of a youth's face
      • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Admirable Style of Demosthenes 51
   2. plumelet
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 585
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 1182
2. wing, properly of insects
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Progression of Animals 713.A.10
   1. the wing-like membrane in a kind of serpents
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.76
3. anything like a feather or wing
   1. leaf
      • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 524
   2. (in the plural) the sails of a ship
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Collected Works 25

Inflection

References

• πτίλον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πτίλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πτίλον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette