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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̌ː.li.tʰa/ → /ˈi.li.θa/ → /ˈi.li.θa/
Adverb
ἤλῐθᾰ • (ḗlitha)
- enough, sufficiently
- very much, exceedingly
- in vain, to no purpose
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἤλιθα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἤλιθα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἤλιθα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἤλιθα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press