ἐλλός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-nó-s, from *h₁el- (“deer”). Compare ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”), Lithuanian elnias (“deer, stag, hart”), Russian оле́нь (olénʹ, “deer”), Russian лось (losʹ, “elk”), Old Armenian եղն (ełn, “hind”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /el.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /elˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /elˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /elˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈlos/
Noun
ἐλλός • (ellós) m (genitive ἐλλοῦ); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἐλλός ho ellós |
τὼ ἐλλώ tṑ ellṓ |
οἱ ἐλλοί hoi elloí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐλλοῦ toû elloû |
τοῖν ἐλλοῖν toîn elloîn |
τῶν ἐλλῶν tôn ellôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐλλῷ tōî ellōî |
τοῖν ἐλλοῖν toîn elloîn |
τοῖς ἐλλοῖς toîs elloîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἐλλόν tòn ellón |
τὼ ἐλλώ tṑ ellṓ |
τοὺς ἐλλούς toùs elloús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐλλέ ellé |
ἐλλώ ellṓ |
ἐλλοί elloí | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἐλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐλλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN