Ἠλύσιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek; possibly implying an unattested Elysian language.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἠλῠ́σῐον • (Ēlŭ́sĭon) n (genitive Ἠλῠσῐ́ου); second declension

  1. Elysium; an Elysian field; one of the Elysian fields

Declension

Second declension of τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον; τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον
tò Ēlŭ́sĭon 		τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω
tṑ Ēlŭsĭ́ō 		τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ
tằ Ēlŭ́sĭă
Genitive τοῦ Ἠλῠσῐ́ου
toû Ēlŭsĭ́ou 		τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν
toîn Ēlŭsĭ́oin 		τῶν Ἠλῠσῐ́ων
tôn Ēlŭsĭ́ōn
Dative τῷ Ἠλῠσῐ́ῳ
tōî Ēlŭsĭ́ōi 		τοῖν Ἠλῠσῐ́οιν
toîn Ēlŭsĭ́oin 		τοῖς Ἠλῠσῐ́οις
toîs Ēlŭsĭ́ois
Accusative τὸ Ἠλῠ́σῐον
tò Ēlŭ́sĭon 		τὼ Ἠλῠσῐ́ω
tṑ Ēlŭsĭ́ō 		τᾰ̀ Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ
tằ Ēlŭ́sĭă
Vocative Ἠλῠ́σῐον
Ēlŭ́sĭon 		Ἠλῠσῐ́ω
Ēlŭsĭ́ō 		Ἠλῠ́σῐᾰ
Ēlŭ́sĭă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ⇒ Greek: Ηλύσιο (Ilýsio)
  • → Latin: Ēlysium n sg

Adjective

Ἠλύσῐον • (Ēlúsĭon)

  1. inflection of Ἠλύσιος (Ēlúsios):
    1. masculine accusative singular
    2. neuter nominative/vocative/accusative singular

References

  1. ^ 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, page 517

Further reading

  • “Ἠλύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Ἠλύσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
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