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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine adjective, from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) + -ῐ́ς (-ís, feminine suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hel.lɛː.nís/ → /el.liˈnis/ → /e.liˈnis/
Noun
Ἑλληνῐ́ς • (Hellēnís) f (genitive Ἑλληνῐ́δος); third declension
- A Greek woman
Inflection
Further reading
- “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἑλληνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἑλληνίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1674 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.