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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾱ̔λίᾱ (hālíā, “assembly of people”), 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): /hɛː.li.ǎi̯.aː/ → /i.liˈɛ.a/ → /i.liˈe.a/
Noun
ἡλιαίᾱ • (hēliaíā) f (genitive ἡλιαίᾱς); first declension
- public place or hall (in which the chief law-court was held)
- supreme court (at Athens)
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ἡλιαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἡλιαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἡλιαία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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