ᾍδης
See also: Άδης, Ἀΐδης, ᾅδης, and ἀϊδής
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Ἀΐδης (Aḯdēs) – Homeric
- Ἀΐδᾱς (Aḯdās) – Doric
- Ἀϊδωνεύς (Aïdōneús)
- ᾈδωνεύς (Āidōneús)
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“not”) + *weyd- (“see”), meaning "that which is unseen",[1] equivalent to ἀ- (a-) + εἶδον (eîdon). Compare ἀϊδής (aïdḗs, “invisible”).
Puhvel (1987) argues that it is from *sm̥weyd-, from *sm̥- (compounding stem) + *weyd- (“see”), meaning "see-together" or "uniter", equivalent to ἁ- (ha-) + εἶδον (eîdon), cognate with Russian свида́ние (svidánije, “see each other”), and partly in Sanskrit संगमनं जनानां (saṃgamanaṃ janānāṃ, literally “ingatherer of people”), where *weyd- is replaced with *gʷem-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /háːi̯.dɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)a.de̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ðis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.ðis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.ðis/
Proper noun
ᾍδης • (Hā́idēs) m (genitive ᾍδου); first declension (Attic)
- Hades, the underworld
- Hades, the realm of the dead
- the Grave personified as a god, Death
- Hell
Usage notes
The personal name rarely takes a definite article.
Inflection
First declension of ὁ ᾍδης; τοῦ ᾍδου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ᾍδης ho Hā́idēs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾍδου toû Hā́idou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾍδῃ tôi Hā́idēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ᾍδην tòn Hā́idēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | ᾍδη Hā́idē | ||||||||||||
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First declension of Ἀΐδης; Ἀΐδᾱο (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | Ἀΐδης Aḯdēs | ||||||||||||
Genitive | Ἀΐδᾱο / Ἀΐδε͜ω / Ἀΐδω Aḯdāo / Aḯde͜ō / Aḯdō | ||||||||||||
Dative | Ἀΐδῃ Aḯdēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | Ἀΐδην Aḯdēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ἀΐδη Aḯdē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Άδης (Ádis)
- → Latin: Hādēs
- → Old Church Slavonic: адъ (adŭ) (see there for further descendants)
See also
- Πλούτων (Ploútōn)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “Ἀΐδης, -αο [m.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 34
Further reading
- “ᾍδης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ᾍδης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ᾍδης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- ᾍδης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G86 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.
- below idem, page 73.
- death idem, page 198.
- hades idem, page 380.
- hell idem, page 395.
- infernal idem, page 437.
- lower idem, page 503.
- nether idem, page 556.
- shade idem, page 760.
- under idem, page 912.
- world idem, page 989.