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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to push, press”) (whence εἴλω (eílō, “to shut in, press”), ῑ̓́λη (ī́lē, “band, troop”) and many others).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haː.lí.aː/ → /aˈli.a/ → /aˈli.a/
Noun
ᾱ̔λίᾱ • (hālíā) f (genitive ᾱ̔λίᾱς); first declension
- assembly of people (in Doric states, answering to Attic ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía))
- meeting, assembly
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ἁλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἁλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers