τοὔλαιον (toulaion)

τοὔλαιον is an Ancient Greek form of ἔλαιον, meaning “olive oil”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ἔλαιος, “(garbled form)”.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.16: … όπον. λέγεται δὲ καὶ λοπάδας αὐτοῦ πλείστας εὑρῆσθαι· καὶ Λύκωνα λέγειν ὡς ἐν πυέλῳ θερμοῦ ἐλαίου λούοιτο καὶ τοὔλαιον διαπωλοῖτο. ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ ἀσκίον θερμοῦ ἐλαίου ἐπιτιθέναι αὐτὸν τῷ στομάχῳ φασί· καὶ ὁπότε κοιμῷτο, σφαῖραν χα …

Plutarch, De primo frigido 13: … νεται τὸ βαθύτατον, οἷς δʼ ἀὴρ πλησιάζει, ταῦτα περιλάμπεται καὶ διαγελᾷ. τῶν δʼ ἄλλων ὑγρῶν διαφανὲς μάλιστα τοὔλαιόν ἐστι, πλείστῳ χρώμενον ἀέρι τούτου τεκμήριον κουφότης, διʼ ἣν ἐπιπολάζει πᾶσιν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀέρος ἄνω φερόμενον, π …

All forms of ἔλαιον (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.