Δῆλος
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Folk etymology connects the name with δῆλος (dêlos, “visible, manifest”), due to a mythological account of the island's sudden manifestation. Babiniotis posits a likely Pre-Greek origin.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛ̂ː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈde̝.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈði.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈði.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈði.los/
Proper noun
Δῆλος • (Dêlos) f (genitive Δήλου); second declension
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Georgios Babiniotis, Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας (in Greek), Kéntro Lexikologías, Athens, 2nd Edition (reprint), 2005, p. 469.
Further reading
- “Δῆλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Δῆλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Δῆλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Δῆλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008