Ἦλις
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *wālis, perhaps related to Latin vallis (“valley”), referring to its landscape.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe̝.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.lis/
Proper noun
Ἦλῐς • (Êlis) f (genitive Ἤλῐδος); third declension
- Elis, Greece
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ἦλῐς hē Êlis | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ἤλῐδος tês Ḗlidos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ἤλῐδῐ têi Ḗlidi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ἤλῐδᾰ tḕn Ḗlida | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἦλῐς Êlis | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἠλεῖος (Ēleîos)
Descendants
References
- “Ἦλις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
- Smith, William (1854). "Elis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Perseus Digital Library.