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ἕλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕλειος ἕλειον

Structure: ἑλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(/los

Sense

of the marsh or meadow, of the meads
growing or dwelling in the marsh

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	έ̔λειος	έ̔λειον
	Genitive	ἑλείου	ἑλείου
	Dative	ἑλείῳ	ἑλείῳ
	Accusative	έ̔λειον	έ̔λειον
	Vocative	έ̔λειε	έ̔λειον
Dual	N/A/V	ἑλείω	ἑλείω
Dual	G/D	ἑλείοιν	ἑλείοιν
Plural	Nominative	έ̔λειοι	έ̔λεια
	Genitive	ἑλείων	ἑλείων
	Dative	ἑλείοις	ἑλείοις
	Accusative	ἑλείους	έ̔λεια
	Vocative	έ̔λειοι	έ̔λεια

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	έ̔λειος ἑλείου	ἑλειώτερος ἑλειωτέρου	ἑλειώτατος ἑλειωτάτου
Adverb	ἑλείως	ἑλειώτερον	ἑλειώτατα

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

τί δὴ τὸ σεμνὸν σῷ κατείργασται πόσει, ὕδραν ἕλειον εἰ διώλεσε κτανὼν ἢ τὸν Νέμειον θῆρα; (Euripides, Heracles, episode8)
σὺ δὲ λαμπάδι φλέγων προβάδην ἔξαγ’ ἐπ’ ἀνθηρὸν ἕλειον δάπεδον χοροποιὸν μάκαρ ἥβαν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, antistrophe 15)
Λιβύησ μὲν γὰρ ἔνθερμοσ πολλὴ καὶ ἄνυδροσ, Σκυθίαν δὲ καὶ Θρᾴκην καὶ Πόντον οἱ πεπλανημένοι λίμνασ τε μεγάλασ ἔχειν καὶ ποταμοῖσ διαρρεῖσθαι βαθέσι καὶ πολλοῖσ ἱστοροῦσιν αὐτῶν τε τῶν ἐν μέσῳ τόπων τὰ παράλιμνα καὶ ἑλώδη ψῦχοσ ἔχει μάλιστα διὰ τὰσ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑγρῶν ἀναθυμιάσεισ Ποσειδώνιοσ δὲ τῆσ ψυχρότητοσ αἰτίαν εἰπὼν τὸ πρόσφατον εἶναι τὸν ἕλειον ἀέρα καὶ νοτερὸν οὐκ ἔλυσε τὸ πιθανόν, ἀλλὰ πιθανώτερον ἐποίησεν οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἐφαίνετο τοῦ ἀέροσ ὁ πρόσφατοσ ἀεὶ ψυχρότεροσ, εἰ μὴ τὸ ψυχρὸν ἐν τοῖσ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 16 2:1)
"ὁ μὲν γὰρ Πλάτων καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐράνιον ὠνόμασε φυτόν, ὥσπερ ἐκ ῥίζησ ἄνω τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ὀρθούμενον ὑμεῖσ δὲ τοῦ μὲν Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ καταγελᾶτε, φάσκοντοσ τὸν ἣλιον περὶ γῆν ἀνακλάσει φωτὸσ οὐρανίου γενόμενον αὖθισ ἀνταυγεῖν πρὸσ ὄλυμπον ἀταρβήτοισι προσώποισ αὐτοὶ δὲ γηγενὲσ ζῷον ἢ φυτὸν ἕλειον ἀποφαίνετε τὸν ἥλιον, εἰσ βατράχων πατρίδα ἢ ὕδρων ἐγγράφοντεσ. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 12 6:2)
Μαγνητικὴν δὲ γαῖαν ἔσ τε Μακεδόνων χώραν ἀφικόμεσθ’, ἐπ’ Ἀξίου πόρον, Βόλβησ θ’ ἕλειον δόνακα, Πάγγαιόν τ’ ὄροσ, Ἠδωνίδ’ αἰᾶν· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 6:6)

Synonyms

growing or dwelling in the marsh
- ἑλειοβάτης (walking the marsh, marsh-dwelling)

θρύον (a rush)
δροσερός (dewy)
ἐπίρρυτος (flowing in or to)
καλλίκαρπος (with beautiful fruit)
εὔδενδρος (well-wooded)
ἀπόρρυτος (running)
ἄρκευθος (juniper)
κατάρρυτος (irrigated)
βῆσσα (a wooded comb or glen)
κατάστικτος (spotted)
πρῖνος (the evergreen oak)
ὠμοφάγος (eating raw flesh)
πάγουρος (a)
σχῖνος (the mastich-tree)
Λωτοφάγος (one of the Lotophagi)
λωτοφάγοι (the Lotus-eaters)
κόσσυφος (blackbird)
κεραυνοβόλος (hurling the thunder)
βλαισός (having the knees bent inwards)
στέλεχος (the crown of the root)
στέλεχον (the crown of the root)
ἐμβύθιος (at the bottom)
λείριον (lily)
λείριος ()
ἄξυλος (with no timber)
πολύδενδρος (with many trees)
κόμμι (gum)
τέρμινθος (the terebinth or turpentine tree)
πηγαῖος (of or from a well)
κράνεια (the cornel-tree)

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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growing or dwelling in the marsh

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