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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Latin Velia, from Ancient Greek Ἐλέᾱ (Eléā), from Ϝέλα (Wéla).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.é.lɛː/ → /yˈe.li/ → /iˈe.li/
Proper noun
Ὑέλη • (Huélē) f (genitive Ὑέλης); first declension
- Alternative form of Ἐλέᾱ (Eléā, “Hyele or Elea, Magna Graecia; Velia, Campania, Italy”)
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Ὑέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὑέλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029
- Ὑέλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette