ἴλη
See also: ίλη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἴλα (íla) – Doric
- ϝιλα(ρχίω) (wila(rkhíō)) – Boeotian
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to push, press”) (whence εἴλω (eílō, “to shut in, press”)).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǐː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.li/
Noun
ῑ̓́λη • (ī́lē) f (genitive ἴλης); first declension
- band, troop of men
- troop of horses, squadron of cavalry
- subdivision of the ἀγέλη (agélē) at Sparta
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ῑ̓́λη; τῆς ῑ̓́λης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ῑ̓́λη hē ī́lē | τὼ ῑ̓́λᾱ tṑ ī́lā | αἱ ἶλαι hai îlai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ῑ̓́λης tês ī́lēs | τοῖν ῑ̓́λαιν toîn ī́lain | τῶν ῑ̓λῶν tôn īlôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ῑ̓́λῃ têi ī́lēi | τοῖν ῑ̓́λαιν toîn ī́lain | ταῖς ῑ̓́λαις taîs ī́lais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ῑ̓́λην tḕn ī́lēn | τὼ ῑ̓́λᾱ tṑ ī́lā | τᾱ̀ς ῑ̓́λᾱς tā̀s ī́lās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῑ̓́λη ī́lē | ῑ̓́λᾱ ī́lā | ἶλαι îlai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰλαδόν (iladón)
- ἰλαρχέω (ilarkhéō)
- ἰλάρχης (ilárkhēs)
- ἰλάρχία (ilárkhía)
- ἴλαρχος (ílarkhos)
- ὅμῑλος (hómīlos)
Descendants
- Greek: ίλη (íli)
Further reading
- “ἴλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴλη 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