Καλλίας
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κᾰλλῐ- (kalli-, “beautiful”) + -ᾱς (-ās, “male name suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kal.lí.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kalˈli.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kalˈli.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kalˈli.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈli.as/
Proper noun
Κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς • (Kallíās) m (genitive Κᾰλλῐ́ου); first declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Callias
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Κᾰλλῐ́ᾱς ho Kallíās | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Κᾰλλῐ́ου toû Kallíou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Κᾰλλῐ́ᾳ tôi Kallíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Κᾰλλῐ́ᾱν tòn Kallíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Κᾰλλῐ́ᾱ Kallíā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Καλλιάδης (Kalliádēs)
References
- “Καλλίας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Καλλίας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004