Ἐλευσίς

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See also: ἔλευσις

Ancient Greek

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Eleusis

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.leu̯.sǐːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.lewˈsis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.leɸˈsis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.lefˈsis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.lefˈsis/

Proper noun

Ἐλευσῑ́ς • (Eleusī́s) f (genitive Ἐλευσῖνος); third declension

Eleusis; Eleusina, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ἐλευσῑ́ς; τῆς Ἐλευσῖνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἐλευσῑ́ς hē Eleusī́s
Genitive	τῆς Ἐλευσῖνος tês Eleusînos
Dative	τῇ Ἐλευσῖνῐ têi Eleusîni
Accusative	τὴν Ἐλευσῖνᾰ tḕn Eleusîna
Vocative	Ἐλευσῑ́ς Eleusī́s
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἐλευσῖνι (Eleusîni)
Ἐλευσινόθεν (Eleusinóthen)
Ἐλευσίναδε (Eleusínade)
Ἐλευσίνιος (Eleusínios)

Descendants

Greek: Ελευσίς (Elefsís); Ελευσίνα (Elefsína)
→ Armenian: Էլեֆսիս (Ēlefsis), Էլեֆսին (Ēlefsin)
→ English: Eleusis; Eleusina
→ Georgian: ელევსისი (elevsisi)
→ Latin: Eleusis
→ Russian: Элефси́с (Elefsís), Элевси́н (Elevsín)

Further reading

“Ἐλευσίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ἐλευσίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ἐλευσίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“Ἐλευσίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
“Ἐλευσίς”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

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