Ἦλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • Ἆλῐς (Âlis) – Doric
  • Ϝαλῐς (Walis) – Elean

Etymology

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Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ἦλῐς • (Êlis) f (genitive Ἤλῐδος); third declension

  1. Elis, Greece

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Ἦλῐς; τῆς Ἤλῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἦλῐς
hē Êlis
Genitive τῆς Ἤλῐδος
tês Ḗlidos
Dative τῇ Ἤλῐδῐ
têi Ḗlidi
Accusative τὴν Ἤλῐδᾰ
tḕn Ḗlida
Vocative Ἦλῐς
Êlis
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Ήλις (Ílis)
  • Latin: Ēlis

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
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