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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">wing of a door, gate</b>, mostly in plur. [[door]], [[gate]], esp. of town-gates, gates of an camp a. the like (Il.); <b class="b2">entrance, access, bottleneck etc.</b>, also as PlN (Pi., Emp., IA.).<br />Compounds: Several compp., e.g. <b class="b3">πυλ-άρτης</b> m. [[gate-closer]], adjunct of Hades, also as PN (Hom.), to <b class="b3">ἀρ-</b> in <b class="b3">ἀραρίσκω</b> (s.v.) with univerbating <b class="b3">τη-</b>suffix (Bechtel Lex. s.v., Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1. 31 w. n. 2); <b class="b3">πυλ-ωρός</b>, ep. <b class="b3">πυλα-ωρός</b>, Hdt. <b class="b3">πυλ-ουρός</b>, H. <b class="b3">πυλ-αυρός</b> (Dor.), <b class="b3">-ευρός</b> (Ion.) [[gate-keeper]], [[guard]] (Il.); on the comp.vowel and 2. member s. on <b class="b3">ὁράω</b> and Schwyzer 438, Leumann Hom. Wörter 223 n. 20 : 2c, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 161; <b class="b3">ἑπτά-πυλος</b> [[with seven gates]] (ep. lyr. Il.); PlN <b class="b3">Θερμο-πύλαι</b> pl. (Simon., Hdt. etc.); the Att. orator a.o. for it <b class="b3">Πύλαι</b>, cf. Risch IF 59, 267.<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. <b class="b3">πυλ-ίς</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδος</b> f. (IA.); 2. <b class="b3">-ώματα</b> pl. n. [[gate]] (A, E.; cf. Sommer Zum Zahlwort 9 n.1), formal enlargement (Chantraine Form. 186f.); 3. <b class="b3">-εών</b> (sp.), <b class="b3">-ών</b> (Arist., hell.). -(<b class="b3">ε)ῶνος</b> m. <b class="b2">gate-space, gateway, gate-building</b>; 4. <b class="b3">Πυλ-ᾶτις</b>, <b class="b3">-ιδος</b> f. [[belonging to Πύλαι]] (S. in lyr.), <b class="b3">-αϊ̃τις</b>, <b class="b3">-ιδος</b> f. [[belonging to a gate]] (Lyc. 356; for <b class="b3">Πυλᾶτις</b>?; cf. Redard 10 a. 212). 5. <b class="b3">πυλαῖος</b> [[belonging to a gate]] (late), [[belonging to Πύλαι]] (Demeter; Call.); PN <b class="b3">Πύλαιος</b> (Β842); <b class="b3">Πυλαία</b>, <b class="b3">-ίη</b> f. adjunct of the amphictyonian meeting in <b class="b3">Πύλαι</b> (IA.); from it <b class="b3">Πυλαιασταί</b> m. pl. prop. *"members of <b class="b3">Πυλαία</b>" (on the formation Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 175ff.; hardly correct Bechtel Dial. 2, 655), metaph. [[mountebank]], [[liar]] (Phot., Suid.; Rhod. after H.); prob. also <b class="b3">πυλαϊκός</b> [[conjurer-like]] (late). 6. Denom. verb <b class="b3">πυλ-όομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-όω</b> <b class="b2">to be(come) provided with gates</b> (Ar., X.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As opposed to the inherited <b class="b3">θύρα</b> without etymology; so prob. technical LW [loanword] like many other expressions of architecture (e.g. <b class="b3">μέγαρον</b>; s. also Schwyzer 62). Vain attempts at interpretation in Bq (rejected). -- So prob. Pre-Greek.