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Ancient Greek
Etymology
See Ἕλλην (Héllēn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hel.lás/ → /elˈlas/ → /eˈlas/
Proper noun
Ἑλλᾰ́ς • (Hellás) f (genitive Ἑλλᾰ́δος); third declension
- various areas in Greece, such as the region surrounding Dodona, Thessaly, Phthiotis, or Northern Greece
- Greece
- all lands inhabited by Greeks, including Ionia
- the Greek language
Declension
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Further reading
References
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἑλλάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1671 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011