ἐλεός

See also: ἔλεος and έλεος

Ancient Greek

Technical word without etymology.

ἐλεός • (eleós) m (genitive ἐλεοῦ); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐλεός ho eleós	τὼ ἐλεώ tṑ eleṓ	οἱ ἐλεοί hoi eleoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐλεοῦ toû eleoû	τοῖν ἐλεοῖν toîn eleoîn	τῶν ἐλεῶν tôn eleôn
Dative	τῷ ἐλεῷ tôi eleôi	τοῖν ἐλεοῖν toîn eleoîn	τοῖς ἐλεοῖς toîs eleoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐλεόν tòn eleón	τὼ ἐλεώ tṑ eleṓ	τοὺς ἐλεούς toùs eleoús
Vocative	ἐλεέ eleé	ἐλεώ eleṓ	ἐλεοί eleoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Unexplained but possibly onomatopoeic. Compare Latin ulula (“tawny owl”), ἐλελεῦ (eleleû, “cry of pain”) and ὀλολύζω (ololúzō, “to cry aloud”).

ἐλεός • (eleós) m (genitive ἐλεοῦ); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἐλεός ho eleós	τὼ ἐλεώ tṑ eleṓ	οἱ ἐλεοί hoi eleoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἐλεοῦ toû eleoû	τοῖν ἐλεοῖν toîn eleoîn	τῶν ἐλεῶν tôn eleôn
Dative	τῷ ἐλεῷ tôi eleôi	τοῖν ἐλεοῖν toîn eleoîn	τοῖς ἐλεοῖς toîs eleoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἐλεόν tòn eleón	τὼ ἐλεώ tṑ eleṓ	τοὺς ἐλεούς toùs eleoús
Vocative	ἐλεέ eleé	ἐλεώ eleṓ	ἐλεοί eleoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἐλεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἐλεός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἐλεός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἐλεός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN