Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• 𐁁𐀲𐀫 ‎(ai-ta-ro)
• αἰθᾰλός ‎(aithalós)

Noun

αἴθᾰλος • ‎(aíthalos) m ‎(genitive αἰθᾰ́λου); second declension

1. smoky flame and thick black smoke rising up from the sacked, scorched Troy
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 911
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Collected Works 55
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Woman 1.91
   1. soot
      • Semus 24
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 1.4
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 17.1
   2. a cinder, an ember, a scintilla
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 12.219
2. a kind of black grape grown in Egypt
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 14.74–75

Declension

Descendants

• Latin: aethalus

Adjective

αἴθᾰλος • ‎(aíthalos) m, f ‎(neuter αἴθᾰλον); second declension

1. burnt-coloured, dark brown, dusky, pitchy, blackish, dark
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 659

Declension

Synonyms

• (burnt-coloured, dark brown): αἰθαλόεις ‎(aithalóeis)

Descendants

• Translingual: Aethalium

References

• αἴθαλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «αἴθᾰλος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)