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ἅλς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅλς ἁλός

Structure: ἁλς (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Lat. SAL

Sense

  1. salt
  2. brine
  3. sea
  4. wit

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἅλς ά̔λε ά̔λες
Genitive ἁλός ἁλοῖν ἁλῶν
Dative ἁλί ἁλοῖν ἁλσίν*
Accusative ά̔λα ά̔λε ά̔λας
Vocative ά̔λς ά̔λε ά̔λες

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

  • οἱ δ’ Ἀριστοφάνουσ ἅλεσ πικροὶ καὶ τραχεῖσ ὄντεσ ἑλκωτικὴν δριμύτητα καὶ δηκτικὴν ἔχουσι· (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 4 1:2)
  • ἅλεσ δὲ αὐτόματοι γίνονται ἐν τῇ χώρῃ ἀπὸ τούτων ἔλαιον ποιέουσιν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 29 14:2)
  • κάρδαμα, σήσαμα, κήρυκεσ, ἅλεσ, πίνναι, λεπάδεσ, μύεσ, ὄστρεια, κτένεσ, ὄρκυνεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 4:1)
  • "τυρὸσ καὶ φυστὴ μᾶζα νόμου χάριν ἐπὶ χαλκῶν κανῶν τῶν παρά τισι καλουμένων μαζονόμων, ἀπὸ τῆσ χρείασ εἰληφότων τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν ὁμοῦ δὲ τῇ μάζῃ καὶ τῷ τυρῷ σπλάγχνον καὶ ἅλεσ προσφαγεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 314)
  • ἅλεσ,5 ὀρίγανον, ὕδωρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 81 4:13)

Synonyms

  1. salt

  2. sea

  3. wit

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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