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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

Σπεύσιπποσ ἐν β’ Ὁμοίων φησὶ ἐν ὕδατι γίνεσθαι, σελίνῳ ἑλείῳ τὸ φύλλον ἐοικόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5290)
ὁ γὰρ τροχίλοσ ἐστὶ μὲν ὄρνισ τῶν ἑλείων καὶ παραποταμίων, φρουρεῖ δὲ τὸν κροκόδειλον οὐκ οἰκόσιτοσ ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ἐκείνου λειψάνοισ παρατρεφόμενοσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 31 1:1)
τὴν μὲν οὖν Κομαιθὼ κτείνει Ἀμφιτρύων καὶ τὴν λείαν ἔχων εἰσ Θήβασ ἔπλει, καὶ τὰσ νήσουσ Ἑλείῳ καὶ Κεφάλῳ δίδωσι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 4 7:8)
τὰ γὰρ ὀρεινὴν διεξιόντα γῆν καὶ λιθώδη στερρότερα τῶν ἑλείων καὶ πεδινῶν ἐστι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 11:3)
ἑψήματα γὰρ αὐτοῖσ χορηγοῦσιν ἔκ τινοσ εὐτελείασ ἑτοίμησ γινόμενα, καὶ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ βύβλου πυθμένων τοὺσ δυναμένουσ εἰσ τὸ πῦρ ἐγκρύβεσθαι, καὶ τῶν ῥιζῶν καὶ τῶν καυλῶν τῶν ἑλείων τὰ μὲν ὠμά, τὰ δ’ ἕψοντεσ, τὰ δ’ ὀπτῶντεσ, διδόασιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 80 5:2)
ἐγένοντο δὲ ἐξ Ἀνδρομέδασ παῖδεσ αὐτῷ, πρὶν μὲν ἐλθεῖν εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα Πέρσησ, ὃν παρὰ Κηφεῖ κατέλιπεν ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ τοὺσ Περσῶν βασιλέασ λέγεται γενέσθαι, ἐν Μυκήναισ δὲ Ἀλκαῖοσ καὶ Σθένελοσ καὶ Ἕλειοσ Μήστωρ τε καὶ Ἠλεκτρύων, καὶ θυγάτηρ Γοργοφόνη, ἣν Περιήρησ ἔγημεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 4 5:1)
ἡ γὰρ ἕλειοσ καὶ λειμωνία βοτάνη δαψιλὴσ οὖσα τῶν τε ὀργάδων ἡ δροσερὰ καὶ κατάρρυτοσ ἄπειροσ ὅση θέρει νέμεται καὶ παρέχει διὰ παντὸσ εὐθενούσασ τὰσ ἀγέλασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 37 4:2)

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)
λείριος ()
λείριον (lily)
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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