Delos

See also: dēlos

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek Δῆλος (Dêlos).

Proper noun

Delos

  1. An island in the Cyclades, Greece.
    • 2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108:
      We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]
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Proper noun

Delos

  1. plural of Delo

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms
  • Dēlus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δῆλος (Dêlos).

Proper noun

Dēlos f sg (genitive Dēlī); second declension

  1. Delos

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Dēlos
Genitive Dēlī
Dative Dēlō
Accusative Dēlon
Ablative Dēlō
Vocative Dēle

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → English: Delos
  • → French: Délos
  • Italian: Delo

References
  • “Delos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Delos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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