Ἑλικών

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See also: ελίκων

Ancient Greek

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Mount Helicon

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.li.kɔ̌ːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e.liˈkon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.liˈkon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.liˈkon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.liˈkon/

Proper noun

Ἑλῐκών • (Helikṓn) m (genitive Ἑλῐκῶνος); third declension

Mount Helicon, Boeotia, Greece
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 639

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ἑλῐκών; τοῦ Ἑλῐκῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἑλῐκών ho Helikṓn
Genitive	τοῦ Ἑλῐκῶνος toû Helikônos
Dative	τῷ Ἑλῐκῶνῐ tôi Helikôni
Accusative	τὸν Ἑλῐκῶνᾰ tòn Helikôna
Vocative	Ἑλῐκών Helikṓn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἑλικωνιάδες (Helikōniádes)
Ἑλικωνιάς (Helikōniás)

Descendants

Greek: Ελικών (Elikón); Ελικώνας (Elikónas)
→ Latin: Helicōn

Further reading

“Ἑλικών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ἑλικών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ἑλικών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012

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