Ἦλις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wālis, perhaps related to Latin vallis (“valley”), referring to its landscape.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

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

  1. Elis, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ἦλῐς; τῆς Ἤλῐδος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ἦλῐς
hē Êlĭs
Genitive τῆς Ἤλῐδος
tês Ḗlĭdos
Dative τῇ Ἤλῐδῐ
tēî Ḗlĭdĭ
Accusative τὴν Ἤλῐδᾰ
tḕn Ḗlĭdă
Vocative Ἦλῐς
Êlĭs
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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009
  • Smith, William (1854). "Elis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Perseus Digital Library.
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