μάτρυλλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

μάστρυλλος (mástrullos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek source of μαστροπός (mastropós).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /má.tryl.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tryl.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tryl.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tryl.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tri.los/

Noun

μάτρυλλος • (mátrullos) m (genitive ματρύλλου); second declension

pimp
Synonym: μαστροπός (mastropós)

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

μάτρυλλα (mátrulla)
ματρύλλιον (matrúllion)

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: مارتولوز‎ (martoloz, “pimp”)

Further reading

“μάτρυλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μάτρυλλος 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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