Ἑλλάς
See also: Ελλάς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
See Ἕλλην (Héllēn).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hel.lás/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)elˈlas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /elˈlas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /elˈlas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈlas/
Proper noun
Ἑλλᾰ́ς • (Hellás) f (genitive Ἑλλᾰ́δος); third declension
- Various areas in Greece, such as the region surrounding Dodona, Thessaly, Phthiotis, or Northern Greece.
- Greece
- All lands inhabited by Greeks, including Ionia
- the Greek language
Declension
Third declension of ἡ Ἑλλᾰ́ς; τῆς Ἑλλᾰ́δος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Ἑλλᾰ́ς hē Hellás | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ἑλλᾰ́δος tês Helládos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ἑλλᾰ́δῐ têi Helládi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ἑλλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn Helláda | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ἑλλᾰ́ς Hellás | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἑλλᾰδῐκός (Helladikós)
Descendants
- Greek: Ελλάς (Ellás), Ελλάδα (Elláda)
- Pontic Greek: Ελλάδαν (Elládan)
- → Latin: Hellas
Further reading
Greece on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Ἑλλάς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “Ἑλλάς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1671 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011