ἅλως
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /há.lɔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)a.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.los/
Noun
ἅλως • (hálōs) f (genitive ἅλω); second declension
- threshing floor
- grain on the floor
- disk of sun or moon
- shield
- halo
- serpent's coil
- bird's nest
- ciliary body of the eye
- circular piazza at Delphi
Inflection
Attic second declension of ἡ ἅλως; τῆς ἅλω (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἅλως hē hálōs | τὼ ἅλω tṑ hálō | αἱ ἅλῳ hai hálōi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἅλω tês hálō | τοῖν ἅλῳν toîn hálōin | τῶν ἅλων tôn hálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἅλῳ têi hálōi | τοῖν ἅλῳν toîn hálōin | ταῖς ἅλῳς taîs hálōis | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἅλω / ἅλων tḕn hálō(n) | τὼ ἅλω tṑ hálō | τᾱ̀ς ἅλως tā̀s hálōs | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἅλως hálōs | ἅλω hálō | ἅλῳ hálōi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: halo
- French: halo
- Greek: αλώνι (alóni)
- Greek: άλως (álos)
References
- ἅλως in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἅλως in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἅλως in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette