Δῆλος

See also: Δήλος and δῆλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Δᾶλος (Dâlos) — Doric

Etymology

Unknown. Folk etymology connects the name with δῆλος (dêlos, “visible, manifest”), due to a mythological account of the island's sudden manifestation. Babiniotis posits a likely Pre-Greek origin.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɛ̂ː.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈde̝.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈði.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈði.los/

Proper noun

Δῆλος • (Dêlos) f (genitive Δήλου); second declension

Delos
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.162
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Fragments 87

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ Δῆλος; τῆς Δήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Δῆλος hē Dêlos
Genitive	τῆς Δήλου tês Dḗlou
Dative	τῇ Δήλῳ tēî Dḗlōi
Accusative	τὴν Δῆλον tḕn Dêlon
Vocative	Δῆλε Dêle
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Δήλῐᾰ (Dḗlĭă)
Δηλῐᾰκός (Dēlĭăkós)
Δηλῐᾰ́ς (Dēlĭắs)
Δηλῐεύς (Dēlĭeús)
Δήλῐον (Dḗlĭon)
Δήλῐος (Dḗlĭos)

Descendants

English: Delos
Greek: Δήλος f (Dílos)
Latin: Dēlos

References

^ Georgios Babiniotis, Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας (in Greek), Kéntro Lexikologías, Athens, 2nd Edition (reprint), 2005, p. 469.

“Δῆλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Δῆλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Δῆλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Δῆλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,008

[1] Georgios Babiniotis, Λεξικό της Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας (in Greek), Kéntro Lexikologías, Athens, 2nd Edition (reprint), 2005, p. 469.

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