Ἥλιος
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the noun ἥλῐος (hḗlios, “sun”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɛ̌ː.li.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)e̝.li.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.li.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.li.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.li.os/
- Hyphenation: Ἥ‧λι‧ος
Proper noun
Ἥλῐος • (Hḗlios) m (genitive Ἡλῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
Descendants
- → English: Helios
- → French: Hélios
- Greek: Ήλιος (Ílios)
- → Italian: Elio
- → Latin: Helius
- → Russian: Ге́лиос (Gélios)
- → Turkish: Helios
- Albanian: Ëlli
Further reading
- Ἥλιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Ἥλιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026