ἦλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained, but probably related to μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɛ̂ː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe̝.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.lon/
Noun
ἦλον • (êlon) n (genitive ἤλου); second declension
- sloe or plum
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ἦλον; τοῦ ἤλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἦλον tò êlon | τὼ ἤλω tṑ ḗlō | τᾰ̀ ἦλᾰ tà êla | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἤλου toû ḗlou | τοῖν ἤλοιν toîn ḗloin | τῶν ἤλων tôn ḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἤλῳ tôi ḗlōi | τοῖν ἤλοιν toîn ḗloin | τοῖς ἤλοις toîs ḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἦλον tò êlon | τὼ ἤλω tṑ ḗlō | τᾰ̀ ἦλᾰ tà êla | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἦλον êlon | ἤλω ḗlō | ἦλᾰ êla | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἦλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἦλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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