αὐλητρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Feminine form of αὐλητής (aulētḗs, “flute-player”), from αὐλέω (auléō, “to play the flute”) +‎ -τρις (-tris, feminine agent-noun suffix) from αὐλός (aulós, “flute”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛː.trís/ → /a.βliˈtris/ → /a.vliˈtris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.lɛː.trís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aw.le̝ˈtris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.βliˈtris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.vliˈtris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.vliˈtris/

Noun

αὐλητρῐ́ς • (aulētrís) f (genitive αὐλητρῐ́δος); third declension

1. (music) A flute-girl in ancient Greece, whose services may also have been sexual.

Declension

Third declension of ἡ αὐλητρῐ́ς; τῆς αὐλητρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐλητρῐ́ς hē aulētrís	τὼ αὐλητρῐ́δε tṑ aulētríde	αἱ αὐλητρῐ́δες hai aulētrídes
Genitive	τῆς αὐλητρῐ́δος tês aulētrídos	τοῖν αὐλητρῐ́δοιν toîn aulētrídoin	τῶν αὐλητρῐ́δων tôn aulētrídōn
Dative	τῇ αὐλητρῐ́δῐ têi aulētrídi	τοῖν αὐλητρῐ́δοιν toîn aulētrídoin	ταῖς αὐλητρῐ́σῐ / αὐλητρῐ́σῐν taîs aulētrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν αὐλητρῐ́δᾰ tḕn aulētrída	τὼ αὐλητρῐ́δε tṑ aulētríde	τᾱ̀ς αὐλητρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s aulētrídas
Vocative	αὐλητρῐ́ς aulētrís	αὐλητρῐ́δε aulētríde	αὐλητρῐ́δες aulētrídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• auletris

References

• “αὐλητρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὐλητρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αὐλητρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐλητρίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • flute-girl idem, page 330.
  • flute-player idem, page 330.