ἅμιλλα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the ending in "-ιλλ-" points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /há.mil.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)a.mil.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.mil.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.mil.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.la/
Noun
ἅμιλλα • (hámilla) f (genitive ἁμίλλης); first declension
- competition, contest, trial
- face-off, confrontation, dispute
- struggle, fight, conflict
- sporting activity, game, race
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἅμιλλᾰ; τῆς ἁμίλλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἅμιλλᾰ hē hámilla | τὼ ἁμίλλᾱ tṑ hamíllā | αἱ ἅμιλλαι hai hámillai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἁμίλλης tês hamíllēs | τοῖν ἁμίλλαιν toîn hamíllain | τῶν ἁμιλλῶν tôn hamillôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἁμίλλῃ têi hamíllēi | τοῖν ἁμίλλαιν toîn hamíllain | ταῖς ἁμίλλαις taîs hamíllais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἅμιλλᾰν tḕn hámillan | τὼ ἁμίλλᾱ tṑ hamíllā | τᾱ̀ς ἁμίλλᾱς tā̀s hamíllās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἅμιλλᾰ hámilla | ἁμίλλᾱ hamíllā | ἅμιλλαι hámillai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἁμιλλάομαι (hamilláomai)
- ἁμίλλημα (hamíllēma)
- ἁμιλλητήρ (hamillētḗr)
- ἁμιλλητήριος (hamillētḗrios)
- ἁμιλλητικός (hamillētikós)
Descendants
- Greek: άμιλλα (ámilla)
Further reading
- ἅμιλλα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἅμιλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅμιλλα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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