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Ἑλλάς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑλλάς

Structure: Ἑλλαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Hellas
  2. a city of Thessaly, founded by Hellen
  3. part of Phthiotis, inhabited by the Μυρμιδόνες,
  4. Northern Greece, opp. Peloponnesus
  5. Greece, from Peloponnesus to Epirus and Thessaly inclusively
  6. as a general name for all lands inhabited by Hellenes, including Ionia
  7. (adj) Greek

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἑλλάς Ἑλλάδε Ἑλλάδες
Genitive Ἑλλάδος Ἑλλάδοιν Ἑλλάδων
Dative Ἑλλάδι Ἑλλάδοιν Ἑλλάσιν*
Accusative Ἑλλάδα Ἑλλάδε Ἑλλάδας
Vocative Ἑλλάς Ἑλλάδε Ἑλλάδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἡ Ἑλλὰσ καὶ ἡ σύμπασα καὶ τὰ παρατείνοντα, οὗτοι ἐνεπορεύοντό σοι ἐν ψυχαῖσ ἀνθρώπων καὶ σκεύη χαλκᾶ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἐμπορίαν σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 27:13)
  • ἑτερόφθαλμοσ γέγονεν ἡ Ἑλλὰσ τῆσ τῶν Θηβαίων ἀναιρεθείσησ πόλεωσ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 65:1)
  • φαίνεται γὰρ ἡ νῦν καλουμένη Ἑλλὰσ οὐ πάλαι βεβαίωσ οἰκουμένη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 172)
  • καὶ τοσοῦτον ἔρωτα ἔσχον πρὸσ αὐτὸν Ἀθηναῖοί τε αὐτοὶ καὶ ἅπασα ἡ Ἑλλάσ, ὥστε παριόντι ὑπεξανίστασθαι μὲν τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ, σιωπὴν δὲ γίνεσθαι παρὰ πάντων. (Lucian, (no name) 63:2)
  • καὶ αὕτη παλαιὰ ἦν Ἑλλὰσ πόλισ Ιὠνική, Μιλησίων ἄποικοσ, καὶ μνήμη ἐστὶν αὐτῆσ ἐν πολλοῖσ γράμμασιν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 19 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. part of Phthiotis

  2. Northern Greece

  3. Greece

  4. Greek

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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