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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to push, press”) (whence εἴλω (eílō, “to shut in, press”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǐː.lɛː/ → /ˈi.li/ → /ˈi.li/
Noun
ῑ̓́λη • (ī́lē) f (genitive ἴλης); first declension
- band, troop of men
- troop of horses, squadron of cavalry
- subdivision of the ἀγέλη (agélē) at Sparta
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Further reading
- “ἴλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴλη 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