ξύλῳ (xylo)

ξύλῳ is an Ancient Greek form of ξύλον, meaning “wood, timber, log”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 91 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.65: … , σὺ δὲ σεαυτὸν βιάζῃ γυναῖκα εἶναι. ἰδὼν ἄφρονα ψαλτήριον ἁρμοζόμενον οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ, ἔφη, τοὺς μὲν φθόγγους τῷ ξύλῳ προσαρμόττων, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν εἰς τὸν βίον μὴ ἁρμόττων; πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, ἀνεπιτήδειός εἰμι πρὸς φιλοσοφίαν, τί …

Aristophanes, Lysistrata 291: ὡς ἐμοῦ γε τὼ ξύλω τὸν ὦμον ἐξιπώκατον·

All forms of ξύλον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.