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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

  • ἐν Ποσειδᾶνοσ περικλειτοῖσ ἀέθλοισ εὐθὺσ ἔνδειξ]ασ Ἕλλασιν ποδῶν ὁρμὰν ταχεῖαν· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 10 2:1)
  • ὄφελε πρότερον αἰθέρα δῦναι μέγαν ἢ τὸν πολύκοινον Αἵδαν κεῖνοσ ἁνήρ, ὃσ στυγερῶν ἔδειξεν ὅπλων Ἕλλασιν κοινὸν Ἄρη. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • αἵδε ποτ’ Ἀσίδα γαῖαν ἐπόρθησαν πολύχρυσον,αἵδε καὶ Ἕλλασι<ν> δουλοσύναν ἔπορον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. part of Phthiotis

  2. Northern Greece

  3. Greece

  4. Greek

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

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