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ἐλα̈ίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλα̈ίς ἐλα̈ίδος

Structure: ἐλα̈ιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)lai/a

Sense

  1. an olive-tree

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐλα̈ίς ἐλα̈ίδε ἐλα̈ίδες
Genitive ἐλα̈ίδος ἐλα̈ίδοιν ἐλα̈ίδων
Dative ἐλα̈ίδι ἐλα̈ίδοιν ἐλα̈ίσιν*
Accusative ἐλα̈ίδα ἐλα̈ίδε ἐλα̈ίδας
Vocative ἐλα̈ί ἐλα̈ίδε ἐλα̈ίδες

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

  • ὄρνισ, ἃ παρὰ πετρίνασ πόντου δειράδασ, ἀλκυών, ἔλεγον οἶτον ἀείδεισ, εὐξύνετον ξυνετοῖσ βοάν, ὅτι πόσιν κελαδεῖσ ἀεὶ μολπαῖσ, ἐγώ σοι παραβάλλομαι θρήνουσ, ἄπτεροσ ὁρ́νισ, ποθοῦσ’ Ἑλλάνων ἀγόρουσ, ποθοῦσ’ Ἄρτεμιν λοχίαν, ἃ παρὰ Κύνθιον ὄχθον οἰ‐ κεῖ φοίνικά θ’ ἁβροκόμαν δάφναν τ’ εὐερνέα καὶ γλαυκᾶσ θαλλὸν ἱερὸν ἐλαί‐ ασ, Λατοῦσ ὠδῖνα φίλαν, λίμναν θ’ εἱλίσσουσαν ὕδωρ κύκλιον, ἔνθα κύκνοσ μελῳ‐ δὸσ Μούσασ θεραπεύει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. an olive-tree

Related

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

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