ἅλας

ἅλας

See also: άλας and Ἄλας

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/ → /ˈa.las/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)a.las/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.las/

Noun

ἅλας • (hálas) n (genitive ἅλατος); third declension

1. Koine form of ἅλς (háls, “salt”)

Declension

Third declension of τὸ ἅλας; τοῦ ἅλατος (Koine)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ ἅλας tò hálas
Genitive	τοῦ ἅλατος toû hálatos
Dative	τῷ ἅλατῐ tôi hálati
Accusative	τὸ ἅλας tò hálas
Vocative	ἅλας hálas
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

Descendants

• Greek: αλάτι (aláti)
• → Greek: άλας (álas)

Further reading

• “ἅλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἅλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἅλας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G217 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible